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Predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female senior secondary school students in the Kpando Municipality, Ghana

BACKGROUND: Improving the reproductive health of young women in developing countries requires access to safe and effective methods of fertility control. Volta Region records one of the highest prevalence of teenage pregnancy and adolescents aged 15–19 years are the least acceptors of contraceptives...

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Autores principales: Der, Amanda D, Anaman-Torgbor, Judith A, Charles-Unadike, Veronica O, Tarkang, Elvis E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Makerere Medical School 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222603
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i3.49
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author Der, Amanda D
Anaman-Torgbor, Judith A
Charles-Unadike, Veronica O
Tarkang, Elvis E
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Charles-Unadike, Veronica O
Tarkang, Elvis E
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description BACKGROUND: Improving the reproductive health of young women in developing countries requires access to safe and effective methods of fertility control. Volta Region records one of the highest prevalence of teenage pregnancy and adolescents aged 15–19 years are the least acceptors of contraceptives in the Region. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study determined predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female Senior Secondary School students in the Kpando Municipality, Ghana. METHOD: A cross-sectional design was adopted, collecting data among a multistage sample of 270 participants, using a pretested self-administered questionnaire and analysing them using Stata software Version 16 at the 0.05 level of significance. RESULTS: The mean age of the respondents was 16.78 ± 1.31. About 40.2% of the sexually experienced participants used a modern contraceptive during ther first sexual encounter. However, the majority (69.3%) had the intention to use modern contraceptives. Regarding subjective norms, the majority of the significant others (63.0%) were not supportive of modern contraceptive use and more than half of the respondents (59.3%) had a positive attitude towards modern contraceptive use, while 54.1% perceived that they had control over modern contraceptive use. The majority (69.3%) had the intention to use modern contraceptives. Perceived behavioural control was the only significant predictor of the intention to use modern contraceptives [AOR= 9.80 (C.I: 5.11, 18.77); p< 0.001]. CONCLUSION: Interventions to increase the perception of control over contraceptive use is of the essence. This will help increase their intention to use modern contraceptives.
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spelling pubmed-88433032022-02-24 Predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female senior secondary school students in the Kpando Municipality, Ghana Der, Amanda D Anaman-Torgbor, Judith A Charles-Unadike, Veronica O Tarkang, Elvis E Afr Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: Improving the reproductive health of young women in developing countries requires access to safe and effective methods of fertility control. Volta Region records one of the highest prevalence of teenage pregnancy and adolescents aged 15–19 years are the least acceptors of contraceptives in the Region. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study determined predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female Senior Secondary School students in the Kpando Municipality, Ghana. METHOD: A cross-sectional design was adopted, collecting data among a multistage sample of 270 participants, using a pretested self-administered questionnaire and analysing them using Stata software Version 16 at the 0.05 level of significance. RESULTS: The mean age of the respondents was 16.78 ± 1.31. About 40.2% of the sexually experienced participants used a modern contraceptive during ther first sexual encounter. However, the majority (69.3%) had the intention to use modern contraceptives. Regarding subjective norms, the majority of the significant others (63.0%) were not supportive of modern contraceptive use and more than half of the respondents (59.3%) had a positive attitude towards modern contraceptive use, while 54.1% perceived that they had control over modern contraceptive use. The majority (69.3%) had the intention to use modern contraceptives. Perceived behavioural control was the only significant predictor of the intention to use modern contraceptives [AOR= 9.80 (C.I: 5.11, 18.77); p< 0.001]. CONCLUSION: Interventions to increase the perception of control over contraceptive use is of the essence. This will help increase their intention to use modern contraceptives. Makerere Medical School 2021-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8843303/ /pubmed/35222603 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i3.49 Text en © 2021 Der AD et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female senior secondary school students in the Kpando Municipality, Ghana
title_fullStr Predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female senior secondary school students in the Kpando Municipality, Ghana
title_full_unstemmed Predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female senior secondary school students in the Kpando Municipality, Ghana
title_short Predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female senior secondary school students in the Kpando Municipality, Ghana
title_sort predictors of intention to use modern contraceptives among female senior secondary school students in the kpando municipality, ghana
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222603
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i3.49
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