As long as (I think) my husband agrees: role of perceived partner approval in contraceptive use among couples living in military camps in Kinshasa, DRC.

Hernandez, Julie H; Babazadeh, Saleh; Anglewicz, Philip A; Akilimali, Pierre Z

As long as (I think) my husband agrees: role of perceived partner approval in contraceptive use among couples living in military camps in Kinshasa, DRC.

Hernandez, Julie H; Babazadeh, Saleh; Anglewicz, Philip A; Akilimali, Pierre Z.

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Hernandez JH; Department of International Health and Sustainable Development, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal St, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA. hernanjulie@gmail.com.
Babazadeh S; Department of Health Policy and Management, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Anglewicz PA; Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Akilimali PZ; Kinshasa School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Reprod Health ; 19(1): 6, 2022 Jan 12.

Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35022043

Research indicates that women living in Sub-Saharan Africa may not use contraceptive methods if their partner disapproves. However, there are methodological gaps in how this relation has been measured so far. For example, women are often the only ones asked whether their partner approves of contraception and surveys rarely assess how women know of their partner's disapproval and how strongly it has been communicated to them, nor do they ask said partner for his actual opinion on the matter.In this study we address some of those questions by interviewing men and women from married couples separately and comparing their opinion of family planning use. The research uses a population-based survey conducted among couples living in military camps in the capital city of the Democratic Republic Congo, Kinshasa.The results show that women overall are poorly aware of their partner's actual opinion, but act based on those perceptions, nonetheless. In particular, women whose husband disapproves of family planning but (falsely) perceive his approval have some of the highest odds in our cohort for contraceptive use. Conversely, women in a "false negative" scenario (husband approves but they perceive disapproval) are less likely to use modern contraception. Additional analysis indicates that this latter scenario is more common among women who are more educated than their partner, possibly because they are stereotyping his family planning desires. The findings and the discussion also raise the possibility that women may however benefit from ignoring their partners' true wishes in order to fulfill their own contraceptive choice.

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Anticonceptivos; Personal Militar; Anticoncepción; Conducta Anticonceptiva; República Democrática del Congo; Servicios de Planificación Familiar; Femenino; Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud; Humanos; Masculino; Esposos

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Contraception; Couple communication; Men; Partner approval; Sub-Saharan Africa

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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Anticonceptivos / Personal Militar Tipo de estudio: Qualitative_research Límite: Female / Humans / Male País/Región como asunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: Reprod Health Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Reino Unido

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