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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Demographic and sociocultural factors influencing contraceptive use in

Uganda.

AUTHORS

Agyei WK; Migadde M

SOURCE

JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE. 1995 Jan;27(1):47-60.

ABSTRACT

Data from the 1988/89 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey was used to examine contraceptive knowledge,

attitude, and usage among 3055 currently married Ugandan women. An estimated 20% of total population were not

included in the sample due to areas of civil disorder. Greater knowledge about contraception was found among

women with a secondary or higher education, among women with three or more surviving children, among urban

women, and among women with husbands absent. Catholic women had less knowledge than Protestants and

Muslims. More favorable attitudes toward contraceptive use were found among women aged 20 years and older.

Women with a secondary or higher education were more likely to approve of contraceptive use. The Bantu, Nilo-

hamites, and Hamites highly approved of contraception compared to Lilotics. Approval was greater among women

who desired no more children. Women whose husbands lived away from home were more likely to approve of

contraceptive use. 26.4% of women who had never had a child die had ever practiced family planning. 21.6% who

had experienced a loss of a child had ever practiced family planning. Women who had married at the age of 20 years

and older were more likely to have practiced family planning. Contraceptive use was 26.2% among women with three

or more surviving children. 19.0% of women with no surviving children used contraceptives. Higher contraceptive

use was associated with higher educational level, ethnicity (Banti and Nilo-hamite), women with husbands absent,

and urban women. In the multiple classification analysis, findings showed that knowledge of contraceptive methods

was strongly predicted by a woman's ethnic origin, educational attainment, discussion of family planning with a

partner, place of residence, and age at first marriage. Significant determinants of approval of contraceptive use

included husband-wife discussion of family planning, a woman's ethnic origin, educational level, fertility preference,

religious affiliation, and number of surviving children. Ever use of contraception was significantly related to having

secondary or higher education, ever discussed family planning with a spouse, urban residence, and the desire to

stop childbearing. Traditional method use was related to women with no or only primary education. 22.0% of men in

Kampala and 11.0% of rural men had ever used condoms, but only 8.4% used condoms as a prevention for AIDS.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2521-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Demographic and sociocultural factors influencing

contraceptive use in Uganda.", is(are) Agyei WK; Migadde M. The source of this article is "JOURNAL OF

BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE. 1995 Jan;27(1):47-60.". This article was published in 1995 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 2521-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 7521

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