Perception among women about involving men in family planning.

Santosh M Biradar, Ravi A Bhovi

dc.contributor.author	Santosh M Biradar, Ravi A Bhovi
dc.date.accessioned	2020-01-13T11:07:04Z
dc.date.available	2020-01-13T11:07:04Z
dc.date.issued	2013-04
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1689
dc.description.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.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	BLDE(Deemed to be University)	en_US
dc.subject	family planning, gender issues, male contraceptives, women perceptions	en_US
dc.title	Perception among women about involving men in family planning.	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US