Factors associated with contraceptive use in a rural area in Western Cape Province.
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...Women who have already had children, on the other hand, may be more motivated to use contraceptive methods if they do not desire more children or as a mechanism for spacing births.(56)...
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...In South Africa, Peer et al.56 found that women with high self-esteem T a b le 1 ....
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...Because contraceptive choice and overall use among the countries included in this review was primarily restricted by sociocultural influences of men in society as well as women’s husband’s preference, future interventions should begin to account for interpersonal, social, and cultural factors in addition to individual level factors such as education.(56,64,72) While provision of contraception and education about its use is importance, studies in this review showed that use of contraceptives was seen as ‘‘intruding in relationships’’(37) or as a sign of infidelity....
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...In South Africa, Peer et al.(56) found that women with high self-esteem Figure 2....
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...Having one or more children was also associated with greater contraceptive use.(56) It may be that younger women, who most likely have fewer children, do not want to use contraceptives due to fear of future infertility....
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...In South Africa, women that strongly agreed to male decision making regarding child-bearing did not influence effective contraception [44]....
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...Two control variables, namely women autonomy and partner education, were included based on their significance in earlier studies [8, 17, 39]....
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...The selection of the variables was guided by literature [8, 9, 12, 37, 38]....
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...Researchers argue that unplanned pregnancy is highly likely to reflect a lack of access to education on family planning during antenatal visits [32, 33]....
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