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The Relationship Between Ambivalent and Indifferent Pregnancy Desires and Contraceptive Use Among Malawian Women. 马拉维妇女矛盾和冷漠的怀孕欲望与避孕药具使用的关系。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-07-05 DOI: 10.1363/43e3417
Sarah Huber, Allahna Esber, Sarah Garver, Venson Banda, Alison Norris
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引用次数: 15
Service Delivery Correlates of Choosing Short-Acting Contraceptives at the Time of Uterine Evacuation in Bangladesh. 服务提供与孟加拉国子宫切除时选择短效避孕药的相关性。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-06-01 DOI: 10.1363/43e3817
Erin Pearson, Kamal Kanti Biswas, Rezwana Chowdhury, Kathryn L Andersen, Sharmin Sultana, S M Shahidullah, Caroline Moreau, Michele R Decker
{"title":"Service Delivery Correlates of Choosing Short-Acting Contraceptives at the Time of Uterine Evacuation in Bangladesh.","authors":"Erin Pearson,&nbsp;Kamal Kanti Biswas,&nbsp;Rezwana Chowdhury,&nbsp;Kathryn L Andersen,&nbsp;Sharmin Sultana,&nbsp;S M Shahidullah,&nbsp;Caroline Moreau,&nbsp;Michele R Decker","doi":"10.1363/43e3817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1363/43e3817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>The World Health Organization recommends that contraceptives be offered on the day of a uterine evacuation procedure (i.e., induced abortion or postabortion care for an incomplete abortion). Short-acting methods can be initiated on the day of the uterine evacuation, regardless of procedure type.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Survey data from a facility-based sample of 479 Bangladeshi women aged 18-49 who did not intend to become pregnant in the four months following their uterine evacuation were used to examine women's choice of short-acting contraceptive methods (pill, condoms or injectable). Service delivery correlates of contraceptive choice were identified using sequential logistic regression models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seventy-three percent of women chose a short-acting contraceptive method on the day of their uterine evacuation. The odds that a woman chose a short-acting method, rather than no method, were lower among those who had had a medication abortion (odds ratio, 0.1) or dilatation and curettage (0.3) than among those who had had a vacuum aspiration. The likelihood that a woman chose a specific type of short-acting method varied according to the type of uterine evacuation she had had, the facility level and the governmental or nongovernmental entity that managed the facility.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Uterine evacuation service delivery characteristics may act as barriers to women's choosing a contraceptive method following an abortion. Training and monitoring providers may help ensure that all uterine evacuation clients have access to the full range of contraceptive information and services and that their choices, rather than service delivery factors, drive postabortion contraceptive use.</p>","PeriodicalId":46940,"journal":{"name":"International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":"43 2","pages":"67-74"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35673900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Role of Public-Sector Family Planning Programs in Meeting the Demand for Contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa. 公共部门计划生育方案在满足撒哈拉以南非洲避孕需求方面的作用。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-06-01 DOI: 10.1363/43e3917
John Bongaarts, Karen Hardee
{"title":"The Role of Public-Sector Family Planning Programs in Meeting the Demand for Contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa.","authors":"John Bongaarts,&nbsp;Karen Hardee","doi":"10.1363/43e3917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1363/43e3917","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>Commonly used indicators of contraceptive behavior in a population-modern contraceptive prevalence (mCPR), unmet need for contraception, demand for contraception and demand satisfied-are not well-suited for evaluating the progress made by government family planning programs in helping women and men achieve their reproductive goals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Trends in these measures in 26 Sub-Saharan African countries between 1990 and 2014 were examined. Trends in a proposed new indicator, the public-sector family planning program impact score (PFPI), and its relationship to mCPR and the family planning effort score were also assessed. Case studies were used to review public family planning program development and implementation in four countries (Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Kenya).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The four commonly used indicators capture the extent to which women use family planning and to which demand is satisfied, but shed no direct light on the role of family planning programs. PFPI provides evidence that can be used to hold governments accountable for meeting the demand for family planning, and was closely related to policy developments in the four case-study countries.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PFPI provides a useful addition to the indicators currently used to assess progress in reproductive health and family planning programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":46940,"journal":{"name":"International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":"43 2","pages":"41-50"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35673901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 20
Longitudinal Evaluation of the Tupange Urban Family Planning Program in Kenya. 肯尼亚 Tupange 城市计划生育计划纵向评估。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-06-01 DOI: 10.1363/43e4117
Aimee Benson, Lisa M Calhoun, Meghan Corroon, Peter Lance, Rick O'Hara, John Otsola, Ilene S Speizer, Jennifer Winston
{"title":"Longitudinal Evaluation of the Tupange Urban Family Planning Program in Kenya.","authors":"Aimee Benson, Lisa M Calhoun, Meghan Corroon, Peter Lance, Rick O'Hara, John Otsola, Ilene S Speizer, Jennifer Winston","doi":"10.1363/43e4117","DOIUrl":"10.1363/43e4117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>Levels of fertility and contraceptive use have long fluctuated in Kenya. The multicomponent Tupange program, part of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, was initiated in 2011 to increase use of modern family planning methods.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Women aged 15-49 in the five Kenyan cities where Tupange was implemented were interviewed in 2010 and reinterviewed in 2014 to obtain information on their contraceptive use and exposure to components of the Tupange program. Fixed-effects models were estimated to identify associations between program exposure and use of modern family planning methods. Analyses were performed to determine the relative cost-effectiveness of program components.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>During the four-year follow-up period, the proportion of women using modern contraceptives increased from 45% to 52%, and the proportion of users who were using long-acting or permanent methods rose from 6% to 19%. The fixed-effects model indicated that modern method use was associated with having heard Tupange-related local radio programming and marginally associated with having discussed family planning with a community health worker (CHW); among women who were unmarried or did not give birth during the study period, modern method use was associated with living near program facilities. Local radio programming was the most cost-effective program component, followed by proximity to Tupange facilities and discussions with CHWs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Urban reproductive health programs seeking to increase use of modern family planning methods in Kenya and other Sub-Saharan African settings should consider multicomponent approaches that include CHW activities, local radio programming and improvements to the supply environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":46940,"journal":{"name":"International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":"43 2","pages":"75-87"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5897119/pdf/nihms955798.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35673903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Impact of Family Planning and Business Trainings on Private-Sector Health Care Providers in Nigeria. 计划生育和业务培训对尼日利亚私营部门保健提供者的影响。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-06-01 DOI: 10.1363/43e3717
Jorge Ugaz, Anthony Leegwater, Minki Chatterji, Doug Johnson, Sikiru Baruwa, Modupe Toriola, Cynthia Kinnan
{"title":"Impact of Family Planning and Business Trainings on Private-Sector Health Care Providers in Nigeria.","authors":"Jorge Ugaz,&nbsp;Anthony Leegwater,&nbsp;Minki Chatterji,&nbsp;Doug Johnson,&nbsp;Sikiru Baruwa,&nbsp;Modupe Toriola,&nbsp;Cynthia Kinnan","doi":"10.1363/43e3717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1363/43e3717","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>Private health care providers are an important source of modern contraceptives in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet they face many challenges that might be addressed through targeted training.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study measures the impact of a package of trainings and supportive supervision activities targeted to private health care providers in Lagos State, Nigeria, on outcomes including range of contraceptive methods offered, providers' knowledge and quality of counseling, recordkeeping practices, access to credit and revenue. A total of 965 health care facilities were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. Facilities in the treatment group-but not those in the control group-were offered a training package that included a contraceptive technology update and interventions to improve counseling and clinical skills and business practices. Multivariate regression analysis of data collected through facility and mystery client surveys was used to estimate effects.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The training program had a positive effect on the range of contraceptive methods offered, with facilities in the treatment group providing more methods than facilities in the control group. The training program also had a positive impact on the quality of counseling services, especially on the range of contraceptive methods discussed by providers, their interpersonal skills and overall knowledge. Facilities in the treatment group were more likely than facilities in the control group to have good recordkeeping practices and to have obtained loans. No effect was found on revenue generation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Targeted training programs can be effective tools to improve the provision of family planning services through private providers.</p>","PeriodicalId":46940,"journal":{"name":"International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":"43 2","pages":"51-65"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35674575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Men's Roles in Women's Abortion Trajectories in Urban Zambia. 男性在赞比亚城市女性堕胎轨迹中的作用。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-06-01 DOI: 10.1363/43e4017
Emily Freeman, Ernestina Coast, Susan F Murray
{"title":"Men's Roles in Women's Abortion Trajectories in Urban Zambia.","authors":"Emily Freeman,&nbsp;Ernestina Coast,&nbsp;Susan F Murray","doi":"10.1363/43e4017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1363/43e4017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>Given that maternal morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortion persist, especially in Africa, there is a pressing need to understand the abortion decision-making process. However, little is known about men's influence on and involvement in women's abortion decision making and care seeking.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A qualitative study was conducted at the largest public provider of abortion-related care in Zambia. Thematic framework analysis was used to categorize and synthesize data from in-depth interviews conducted in 2013 with 71 women who received a safe abortion and 41 who received care following an incomplete (unsafe) abortion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Men influenced whether women sought a safe or unsafe abortion; their actions, lack of action and anticipated actions-negative and positive-reflected broader gender inequities. Abandonment by men, and the desire to avoid disclosing pregnancy to men because of fear of their reactions or interference, were important influences on some women's decision to seek abortion, on the secrecy and urgency with which abortion was pursued and on the level of risk assumed. However, other women discussed men's positive influences on their abortion care seeking. In this setting of low awareness of the legality and availability of abortion, some men used their greater social and economic resources to facilitate safe abortion by providing information and paying for care.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Increasing knowledge about the legality and availability of safe abortion is vital not only among sexually active women, but also among those they confide in, including men.</p>","PeriodicalId":46940,"journal":{"name":"International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":"43 2","pages":"89-98"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35673902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
The Incidence of Menstrual Regulation Procedures and Abortion in Bangladesh, 2014. 2014年孟加拉国月经调节程序和流产的发生率。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-03-21 DOI: 10.1363/43e2417
Susheela Singh, Altaf Hossain, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Michael Vlassoff, Hadayeat Ullah Bhuiyan, Meghan Ingerick
{"title":"The Incidence of Menstrual Regulation Procedures and Abortion in Bangladesh, 2014.","authors":"Susheela Singh,&nbsp;Altaf Hossain,&nbsp;Isaac Maddow-Zimet,&nbsp;Michael Vlassoff,&nbsp;Hadayeat Ullah Bhuiyan,&nbsp;Meghan Ingerick","doi":"10.1363/43e2417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1363/43e2417","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>Menstrual regulation (MR) has been part of the Bangladesh family planning program since 1979. However, clandestine abortion remains a serious health problem in Bangladesh, and anecdotal reports indicate that clandestine use of misoprostol has increased since the most recent estimates (for 2010). Because of this, it is important to assess changes in the use of MR services and the incidence of clandestine abortion since 2010.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A survey of a nationally representative sample of 829 health facilities that provide MR or postabortion care services and a survey of 322 professionals knowledgeable about these services were conducted in 2014. Direct and indirect methods were applied to calculate the incidence of MR and induced abortion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 2014, an estimated 1,194,000 induced abortions were performed in Bangladesh (29 per 1,000 women aged 15-49), and 257,000 women were treated for complications of such abortions (a rate of 6 per 1,000 women aged 15-49). Among women with complications, the proportion presenting with hemorrhage increased significantly, from 27% to 48%. An estimated 430,000 MR procedures (using MVA or medication) were performed in health facilities nationwide, a decline of about 40% in the MR rate-from 17 to 10 per 1,000 women aged 15-49-from 2010 to 2014.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Given declines in MR provision, more attention needs to be paid to building capacity, including hiring and training more providers of MR. Harm-reduction approaches should be pursued to increase the safety of clandestine use of misoprostol in Bangladesh.</p>","PeriodicalId":46940,"journal":{"name":"International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":"43 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2017-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35423149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 38
Multipartner Fertility in Nicaragua: Complex Family Formation in a Low-Income Setting. 尼加拉瓜的多配偶生育:低收入环境下复杂的家庭形成。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-03-03 DOI: 10.1363/43e3317
Kammi K Schmeer, Jake Hays
{"title":"Multipartner Fertility in Nicaragua: Complex Family Formation in a Low-Income Setting.","authors":"Kammi K Schmeer,&nbsp;Jake Hays","doi":"10.1363/43e3317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1363/43e3317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>Multipartner fertility (having children with more than one partner) is an important topic in demographic research, but little is known about its incidence and correlates in low-income settings, where rates may be high because of poverty, union instability and early childbearing.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from the 2011-2012 Encuesta Nicaragüense de Demografía y Salud were used to calculate the prevalence of multipartner fertility among 8,320 mothers and 2,141 fathers with two or more children. Logistic and multinomial regression were used to identify individual and family characteristics associated with multipartner fertility.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among those with multiple children, 33% of mothers and 41% of fathers had had children with more than one partner. The prevalence of multipartner fertility was elevated among less-educated women, nonreligious men, and women and men who had grown up in urban areas (odds ratios, 1.3-1.6). Multipartner fertility was associated with lower current household wealth among mothers, and with increased risk of single parenthood and higher fertility among mothers and fathers. Fathers who had had multiple fertility partners were six times as likely as fathers with one fertility partner to report not providing financial support to, or sharing their surname with, at least one of their biological children.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Multipartner fertility is a critical demographic and social phenomenon that may contribute to and reflect important gender and family structure inequalities in Nicaragua. Mothers with multipartner fertility may be at especially high risk of raising children without the children's fathers and with low levels of economic support.</p>","PeriodicalId":46940,"journal":{"name":"International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":"43 1","pages":"29-38"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2017-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35423151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
IN THIS ISSUE. 在本期中。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI: 10.1363/intsexrephea.43.3.i
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引用次数: 0
Premarital Births and Union Formation in Rural South Africa. 南非农村的婚前生育和婚姻形成。
IF 4.4 3区 医学
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1363/42e2716
Christie Sennott, Georges Reniers, F Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Jane Menken
{"title":"Premarital Births and Union Formation in Rural South Africa.","authors":"Christie Sennott, Georges Reniers, F Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Jane Menken","doi":"10.1363/42e2716","DOIUrl":"10.1363/42e2716","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>In rural South Africa, women often delay union formation until they are in their late 20s, though premarital first births are common.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Longitudinal data from the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System in rural South Africa were used to examine the relationship between premarital birth and union entry among 55,158 nonmigrant women aged 10-35 who took part in at least one annual census from 1993 to 2012. Discrete-time event history models were used to determine whether the likelihood of union formation differed between women who had had a premarital first birth and those who had not. Associations between single motherhood and union type (marriages or nonmarital partnerships) were identified using logistic regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Forty-five percent of women had had a premarital first birth and 25% had entered a first union. Women who had had a premarital first birth were less likely than other women to have entered a first union (odds ratio, 0.6). Women who had had a premarital birth in the past year were more likely than those without a premarital birth to have entered a union (1.5), but women had reduced odds of union formation if they had had a birth 1-2 years earlier (0.9) or at least five years earlier (0.8). Unions formed within two years of a premarital birth had an elevated likelihood of being nonmarital partnerships (1.2-1.4).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Single motherhood is common in the Agincourt HDSS, and women with a premarital first birth face challenges in establishing committed unions with partners.</p>","PeriodicalId":46940,"journal":{"name":"International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":"42 4","pages":"187-196"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6885015/pdf/nihms-1016972.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35336647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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