Relationship Characteristics and Contraceptive Use Among Couples in Urban Kenya  

Oleh:

Irani, Laili ; Speizer, Ilene S. ; Fotso, Jean-Christophe

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Family Planning Perspectives vol. 40 no. 01 (Mar. 2014), page 11-20.
Topik: Family planning; Birth Control; Women; Studies; Decision making; Husbands; Wives
Fulltext: Relationship Characteristics and Contraceptive Use.pdf (155.57KB)

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Few studies have used couple data to identify associations between individual- and relationship-level characteristics and contraceptive use in urban areas. Population-based survey data collected in 2010 in three Kenyan cities -- Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu -- were used to identify 883 couples. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to examine associations between relationship-level characteristics and contraceptive use among couples currently using contraceptives; additional analyses investigated intention to use contraceptives among couples currently not practicing contraception. Sixty percent of couples reported current use of contraceptives. In multivariate analyses, couples who desired another child were less likely to use contraceptives than couples who wanted no more children (odds ratio, 0.5). Couples in which both partners reported spousal communication about family planning in the past six months had greater odds of contraceptive use than couples that reported no spousal communication on the subject (3.8). Results from analyses examining associations between relationship-level characteristics and intention to use contraceptives among current nonusers resembled those from analyses of current contraceptive users.

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