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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Paths to the adoption of family planning: a time-lagged correlation analysis

of the Dacca family planning experiment.

AUTHORS

Green LW; Fisher A; Amin R; Shafiullah AB

SOURCE

International Journal of Health Education 18(2): 85-96. 1975.

ABSTRACT

A secondary analysis of the Dacca Family Planning Experiment in Bangladesh was conducted in order to answer the

following questions: 1) were the changes in contraceptive behavior actually attributable to the health education

efforts and 2) why was the program more effective with women than men. The study subjects are the original 405

couples interviewed before and after the 15th month program in Dacca plus matched samples drawn from known

users, sometime users, and nonusers at the end of the program and interviewed again 3 months later. The samples

were taken from the government housing colonies where socioeconomic conditions were similar as were exposures

to the family planning programs. Upon analysis it appears that the degree of communication or empathy, particularly

on the part of the husband in knowing his wife's feelings, is an important predisposition to making couples more

receptive to family planning education in community programs. Adoption of family planning may also result when 1

spouse is so dominant that the other acquiesces to the use of contraception without communication and without

prior motivation or predisposition. A lthough they are possibly small in number, couples in which the wife has more

decision-making power in relation to family matters are more likely to adopt family planning than those in which the

husband is dominant. This appears as the situation after controlling for number of living children, socioeconomic

background, and exposure to a family planning program. Combining these findings with previous experimental

results, it appears wisest to emphasize the need for education of the women in the early stages of urban family

planning programs in developing countries. After the initial response of early acceptors, it becomes increasingly

important to work with the men and to emphasize with them the relationship between family planning and maternal

and child health. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 3033-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Paths to the adoption of family planning: a time-lagged

correlation analysis of the Dacca family planning experiment.", is(are) Green LW; Fisher A; Amin R; Shafiullah AB.

The source of this article is "International Journal of Health Education 18(2): 85-96. 1975.". This article was

published in 1975 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 3033-06. All rights reserved with

PubHealth.info) PIN: 33033

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