意图在乌干达目前不使用生殖年龄的女性中使用现代避孕药
Godfrey Tumwizere1, Richard Nsenga2, Patricia Ndugga2
1Department of Community Health & Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. godfreytumwizere@gmail.com.
Contraception and reproductive medicine
|December 20, 2024
概括
超过60%的乌干达妇女不使用避孕措施,打算在未来使用避孕措施. 教育和先前使用等因素影响了这一意图,突出了改善生殖健康战略的领域.
科学领域:
- 生殖健康 生殖健康
- 人口统计学 人口统计学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 妇女使用避孕药的意图对于计划生育和生殖健康至关重要.
- 了解避孕意图的决定因素是乌干达有效公共卫生干预的关键.
研究的目的:
- 检查影响乌干达非使用者使用现代避孕药意图的因素.
- 为了确定人口和社会经济预测器的避孕药吸收的意图.
主要方法:
- 2016年乌干达人口与健康调查 (UDHS) 的二次数据分析.
- 样本包括13088名不使用避孕的15至49岁妇女.
- 二元逻辑回归模型用于识别使用避孕药的意图预测因素.
主要成果:
- 60.2%的非使用者打算在未来使用避孕药.
- 中学教育的女性,想要/有3-4个孩子,先前使用避孕药和意外怀孕的女性的意图更高.
- 年长的女性 (35-49岁),穆斯林,五旬节和以前已婚女性的意图较低.
结论:
- 中学教育,理想的/实际的家庭规模,以前的使用和怀孕经验是决定避孕意向的重要因素.
- 建议包括改善女童进入中学教育的机会.
- 建议政策制定者和计划实施者向社区宣传较小家庭规模的好处.
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