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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Women segmentation based on contraceptive use.

AUTHORS

El-Zanaty FH

SOURCE

EGYPTIAN POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING REVIEW. 1994 Jun;28(1):19-54.

ABSTRACT

In the past, the Egyptian Information, Education and Communication Center (IEC) SIS/IEC Center has used research

findings to develop messages on the health benefits of family planning to mothers and children, proper use of

contraceptive methods, and the need for acquiring correct information. A recent analysis of the 1995 Egypt

Demographic and Health Survey data on 9153 currently married women aged 15-49 aimed to generate preliminary

audience segments and profiles of different groups of current users, never users, and discontinuers of family

planning methods so the Center can develop messages on family planning and birth spacing. 47.1% of all women in

the analysis currently used contraception. 19.8% had used contraception, but did not do so currently. 33.1% had

never used contraception. The leading factors affecting contraceptive use were husband's approval, husband-wife

communications, desire for more children, and religion. Based on what was learned from discontinuers, the Center

made two general conclusions. It needs to design special messages targeting discontinuers or never users. These

special messages need to concern the groups' knowledge about different family planning methods, side effects,

birth spacing methods, and birth limiting methods. Husband involvement in family planning is essential. Thus, the

Center needs to develop special messages geared to men. To do so, however, a cluster analysis for husbands

would be helpful in message development. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 4502-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Women segmentation based on contraceptive use.",

is(are) El-Zanaty FH. The source of this article is "EGYPTIAN POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING REVIEW.

1994 Jun;28(1):19-54.". This article was published in 1994 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT2T 4502-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 9502

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