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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Increasing use of contraception by decreasing women's dependence and

isolation: credit programs and family planning outreach in Bangladesh.

AUTHORS

Schuler SR; Hashemi SM

SOURCE

Arlington, Virginia, John Snow, JSI Research and Training Institute, 1994 Apr 18.

[3], 17, [2] p. JSI Working Paper No. 7

ABSTRACT

In late 1992 in rural Bangladesh, 1305 married women were interviewed to determine whether financial credit affects

contraceptive use and to examine the interactive effects of credit and family planning outreach. Some women were

members of Grameen Bank, which lends money to the landless rural poor. It requires members to attend regular

meetings to increase their mobility and access to information. Other women lived in villages where Grameen Bank

operates but were not members. The last group included women living in villages not served by Grameen Bank (i.e.,

comparison villages), and whose mobility in public was limited. Grameen Bank members were much more likely to be

using contraceptives than those in comparison villages (59% vs. 43%; p < .001). They also use them at a higher

rate than nonmembers in Grameen Bank villages (59% vs. 48%), but the difference was insignificant. The Grameen

Bank's presence had a significant effect on contraceptive use, even when members and nonmembers did not receive

home visits from family planning workers (p < .01 and .05, respectively). Women who were more mobile were more

likely to use contraception than immobile women (60% vs. 46%; p < .001). These women tended to be Grameen

Bank members. Recent and ever home visits had a strong, positive, independent effect on contraceptive usage (p <

.01), and the presence of Grameen Bank in a village increased that effect. When examining the effect of ever visit by

an outreach worker, the contraceptive usage rate was 59% for both visited and not visited Grameen Bank members,

58% for visited Bank nonmembers compared to 28% for not visited Bank nonmembers, and 48% for visited

comparison group compared to 27% for not visited group. The corresponding figures for visit in past 3 months were

65% and 56%, 68%, and 36%, and 50% and 40%, respectively. These findings suggest that family planning outreach

workers provide the support needed for nonmembers to follow the emerging reproductive norms generated by the

presence of Grameen Bank. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 4031-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Increasing use of contraception by decreasing women's

dependence and isolation: credit programs and family planning outreach in Bangladesh.", is(are) Schuler SR;

Hashemi SM. The source of this article is "Arlington, Virginia, John Snow, JSI Research and Training Institute, 1994

Apr 18. [3], 17, [2] p. JSI Working Paper No. 7". This article was published in 1994 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 4031-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 9031

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