Post Partum Contraception: Awareness and Willingness to Use by Antenatal Attendees in A Third Level Health Facility, Southern Nigeria

Autor: Emmanuel Okwudili Oranu, John Dimkpa Ojule
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: European Journal of Medical and Health Sciences. 4:85-89
ISSN: 2593-8339
DOI: 10.24018/ejmed.2022.4.1.958
Popis: Background: The contraceptive prevalence of Nigeria is low. Post partum contraception (PPC), especially in the immediate post period, may improve our contraceptive prevalence rate. Objective: To determine the level of awareness and willingness to use post partum contraception by antenatal attendees of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH). Methods: This is a cross-sectional questionnaire-based prospective study in consented antenatal attendees of the UPTH between the 1st of June and 31st of August 2020. Pretested questionnaires were administered on the respondents by trained assistants. Their socio-demographic data and information on their awareness and willingness to use post partum contraception were entered into excel spread sheet and analyzed with SPSS version 20.0. Chi-square test of variables were done and P
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