The role of social norms on adolescent family planning in rural Kilifi county, Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Despite Kenya's encouraging progress in increasing access to modern contraception among youth, several barriers remain preventing large-scale efforts to reduce demand-side unmet need for family planning. Shifting social norms around the use and acceptability of modern contraception may represent a potent target for future interventions. However, the structure of normative influence on individual modern contraceptive use among youth needs to be determined. Therefore, our aim was to estimate the influence of individual and group-level normative influence on modern contraceptive use among adolescents from two villages in rural Kenya.

Methods

Trained enumerators collected data from individuals aged 15-24 who provided oral informed consent, or parental informed consent, i

SUBMITTER: Lahiri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9894424 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature