Reasons for unmet need for family planning, with attention to the measurement of fertility preferences: protocol for a multi-site cohort study

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• 作者：Kazuyo Machiyama ; John B. Casterline ; Joyce N. Mumah…
• 关键词：Family planning ; Study protocol ; Kenya ; Bangladesh ; Unmet need for family planning ; Fertility ; Fertility preferences ; Measurement
• 刊名：Reproductive Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 全文大小：586KB
• 刊物主题：Reproductive Medicine; Public Health; Maternal and Child Health;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1742-4755
• 卷排序：14

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BackgroundUnmet need for family planning points to the gap between women’s reproductive desire to avoid pregnancy and contraceptive behaviour. An estimated 222 million women in low- and middle-income countries have unmet need for modern contraception. Despite its prevalence, there has been little rigorous research during the past fifteen years on reasons for this widespread failure to implement childbearing desires in contraceptive practice. There is demographic survey data on women’s self-reported reasons for non-use, but these data provide limited insight on the full set of possible obstacles to use, and one may doubt the meaningfulness of explanations provided by non-users alone. To rectify this evidence gap, this study will gather extensive information on women’s perceptions of contraception (generic and method-specific) and their past contraceptive experience, and it will allow for more complexity in fertility preferences than is standard in demographic surveys.