Reynaldo B. Inocian and Laliene T. Inocian
Full Professor IV,Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts and
Sciences, Cebu Normal University,
Cebu City, Philippines
Teacher II, Talamban Elementary School, Cebu City Division, Cebu City,
Philippines
inocian03@yahoo.com
Date Received: March 21, 2016; Date Revised: April 24, 2016
Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Vol. 4 No.2, 65-75
May 2016
P-ISSN 2350-7756
E-ISSN 2350-8442
Women Knowledge, Attitude, Approval of Family Planning and Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh. 710 KB 4 downloads
Md. Shahidul Islam1, Mahedi Hasan Research Associate, BISR (Bangladesh Institute...
This paper attempted to examine the effects of women knowledge on attitude and family planning approval on contraceptive use of married women. The primary data was collected from Narsingdi municipality and the cluster sampling techniques had been adopted for collecting the data. Path analysis was used to determine the effects of factors that have influence on contraceptive use. The result showed that the attitude and knowledge on contraception, and family planning approval has significant effects on the use of contraceptive. The study also revealed that media exposure significantly effects on family planning approval, increase the positive attitude on contraceptive, and significantly increase the knowledge on contraception and STDs diseases. Women education and mass media can also be considered as potential factors to influence the contraceptive use.
Keywords – Contraceptive, Attitude, Knowledge, Family Planning, Path analysis