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Use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: In Ghana, there is an increase in contraceptive use for traditional and modern methods in rural areas. This study seeks to examine the prevalence and determinants of current use of any contraceptive method among women of reproductive age in the rural Eastern Region of Ghana. METHODS: A c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10552324/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37798705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16795-1 |
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author | Yeboah, Isaac Agyekum, Martin Wiredu Okyere, Joshua Mensah, Ronald Osei Essiaw, Mary Naana Appiah, Hilda Conduah, Andrew Kweku Koduah, Seth Nana Kwabena Christian, Aaron Kobina |
author_facet | Yeboah, Isaac Agyekum, Martin Wiredu Okyere, Joshua Mensah, Ronald Osei Essiaw, Mary Naana Appiah, Hilda Conduah, Andrew Kweku Koduah, Seth Nana Kwabena Christian, Aaron Kobina |
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description | BACKGROUND: In Ghana, there is an increase in contraceptive use for traditional and modern methods in rural areas. This study seeks to examine the prevalence and determinants of current use of any contraceptive method among women of reproductive age in the rural Eastern Region of Ghana. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among women of reproductive age in the rural Eastern region of Ghana. A structured questionnaire was used to interview women in rural Lower Manya and Upper Manya Krobo districts of Eastern region who were selected using a simple random sampling technique. The data were analysed using Stata version 16. A Binary logistic regression was used to examine the determinants of current use of any contraceptive use (traditional and modern methods). RESULTS: The prevalence of contraceptive use was 27.8%. In the adjusted analysis of binary logistic regression, contraceptive use was significantly lower (aOR = 0.24; 95%CI = 0.10–0.56; p = 0.001) among respondents aged 41–49 years compared to those aged 18–35 years. Contraceptive use was significantly lower among migrants (aOR:0.53; 95%CI:0.28–0.99; p = 0.048) compared with non-migrant. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of any contraceptive use among rural women was low. Government and other stakeholders need to create awareness about contraception in the rural areas of Eastern region of Ghana and that would help increase contraceptive methods utilization. In addition, family planning programs should target migrants to design an intervention to increase contraceptive use in rural areas. |
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spelling | pubmed-105523242023-10-06 Use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study Yeboah, Isaac Agyekum, Martin Wiredu Okyere, Joshua Mensah, Ronald Osei Essiaw, Mary Naana Appiah, Hilda Conduah, Andrew Kweku Koduah, Seth Nana Kwabena Christian, Aaron Kobina BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: In Ghana, there is an increase in contraceptive use for traditional and modern methods in rural areas. This study seeks to examine the prevalence and determinants of current use of any contraceptive method among women of reproductive age in the rural Eastern Region of Ghana. METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among women of reproductive age in the rural Eastern region of Ghana. A structured questionnaire was used to interview women in rural Lower Manya and Upper Manya Krobo districts of Eastern region who were selected using a simple random sampling technique. The data were analysed using Stata version 16. A Binary logistic regression was used to examine the determinants of current use of any contraceptive use (traditional and modern methods). RESULTS: The prevalence of contraceptive use was 27.8%. In the adjusted analysis of binary logistic regression, contraceptive use was significantly lower (aOR = 0.24; 95%CI = 0.10–0.56; p = 0.001) among respondents aged 41–49 years compared to those aged 18–35 years. Contraceptive use was significantly lower among migrants (aOR:0.53; 95%CI:0.28–0.99; p = 0.048) compared with non-migrant. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of any contraceptive use among rural women was low. Government and other stakeholders need to create awareness about contraception in the rural areas of Eastern region of Ghana and that would help increase contraceptive methods utilization. In addition, family planning programs should target migrants to design an intervention to increase contraceptive use in rural areas. BioMed Central 2023-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10552324/ /pubmed/37798705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16795-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Yeboah, Isaac Agyekum, Martin Wiredu Okyere, Joshua Mensah, Ronald Osei Essiaw, Mary Naana Appiah, Hilda Conduah, Andrew Kweku Koduah, Seth Nana Kwabena Christian, Aaron Kobina Use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study |
title | Use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | use of any contraceptive method among women in rural communities in the eastern region of ghana: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10552324/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37798705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16795-1 |
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