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Chairman NMA
Dr Umar Muhammad Muktar
Chairman NMA Sokoto
Abstract
| Volume 11, Number 1, 2, 3 & 4, January - December, 2023 |
| *Raji MO , Oche MO , Kaoje AU , Raji HO , Ango JT |
| Background: Objectives: Methods: Nigeria, with a contraceptive prevalence of 15% is characterized by high fertility (5.7 births per women), rapid population growth (2.8%) and has rural women on the average having 2 children more than urban women.This study aimed to assess the awareness and utilization of family planning commodities in a rural community of northern Nigeria.This was a community based, descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in January 2013 as part of community diagnosis of Kware Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto state. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select study respondents. All the 100 women of reproductive age group living in the settlement participated in the study. A set of semi structured interviewer administered questionnaire, containing 3 sections was used to obtain information on respondents' socio-demographic characteristics, awareness of family planning and practice of family planning.Results: Conclusion: Key words: Majority (69.1%) of the respondents had ever heard of family planning commodities, 65.5% reported that their husbands were opposed to modern family planning methods. The study discovered a contraceptive prevalence rate of 4%. Only 6.1% of the respondents had ever used modern family planning. There was a significant association between husbands occupation and husbands support of family planning (X2=10.14, df=2 P=0.006), there was a negative direct correlation between the number of children respondents had alive and additional number of children desired (r=-0.313, P=0.072). The study also discovered a negative correlation between the number of children respondents had alive and the number of children ever born (r=-0.652, P=0.000).This study found a very low contraceptive prevalence rate and low male support for family planning. It has beome imperative, therefore, to develop strategies involving men in reproductive health matters, as a way of improving contraceptive uptake thereby contributing to a reduction in m |
| 10.47837/cmj.19770126.nma.20131410122 |
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