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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Counseling men vs. women: family planning in Kenya. Draft.

AUTHORS

Kim YM; Kols A

SOURCE

[Unpublished] 1997 Jul 16. 18, [6] p.

ABSTRACT

The Family Planning Association of Kenya's Male Involvement Project seeks to encourage men's participation in

family planning (FP). If the effort succeeds, FP providers will be counseling increasing numbers of men and

couples--a task for which they lack training. The impact of client gender was assessed through a comparison of

transcripts of FP sessions (clinic- and community- or workplace-based) with 176 female and 65 male clients and

couples. Most male clients were seeking information, while female clients sought to adopt, continue, or switch

contraceptive methods. Consultations with men and couples were more than twice as long as those with women.

Men's sessions included an average of 198 sentences compared with 155 sentences in couples' sessions and 62 in

women's sessions. Moreover, men's information-gathering style differed significantly from women's. Sessions with

men were a true dialogue in which clients were as important as providers in determining the content and direction of

the discussion; in contrast, providers retained tight control of most sessions with women. Finally, men actively

contributed to the consultation by volunteering additional information, asking questions, and expressing concerns

66% of the time, compared with 27% of the time among women. Providers also responded differently to men and

women, being more likely to offer men more detailed information and asking fewer questions, issuing fewer

instructions, and responding more supportively to active speeches. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 524-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Counseling men vs. women: family planning in Kenya.

Draft.", is(are) Kim YM; Kols A. The source of this article is "[Unpublished] 1997 Jul 16. 18, [6] p.". This article was

published in 1997 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 524-06. All rights reserved with

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