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http://20.193.157.4:9595/xmlui/handle/123456789/1689| Title: | Perception among women about involving men in family planning. |
| Authors: | Santosh M Biradar, Ravi A Bhovi |
| Keywords: | family planning, gender issues, male contraceptives, women perceptions |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2013 |
| Publisher: | BLDE(Deemed to be University) |
| Abstract: | The family planning has always been a female domain. Gender issues, lack of awareness, misconceptions about male methods compounded by programmatic factors with excessive weightage to female methods has led to reduced utilization of male contraceptives. Objective: This study was done to know the perception of women towards male oriented contraceptives. Methodology: Field based cross-sectional study was done on the 300 married women residing in an urban slum of Bijapur. Results: couple protection rate was 65.3%. Of the 196 contraceptive users only 17(8.7%) were using condom and none of the subject's partner had undergone vasectomy. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1689 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Community Medicine |
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