Social judgments on abortion and contraceptive use: a mixed methods study among secondary school teachers and student peer-counsellors in western Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Kenya, unsafe abortion is the leading cause of maternal deaths in adolescent girls aged 15-19 years, and a majority did not use a modern contraceptive before becoming pregnant. The aim of this study was to explore attitudes related to abortion and contraceptive use among secondary school teachers and student peer-counsellors in a low-resource setting in western Kenya.

Methods

A mixed methods design, combining a questionnaire-survey and focus group discussions (FGDs), was utilised to explore attitudes to abortion and contraceptive use among teachers (n = 15) and student peer-counsellors (n = 21) at a secondary school in Kisumu, Kenya. First, two Likert scale questionnaires were used: a modified version of the Stigmatising Attitudes, Beliefs and Actions (SABA) sc

SUBMITTER: Hakansson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7161104 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature