Impact of male partner’s awareness and support for contraceptives on female intent to use contraceptives in southeast Nigeria

Authors

• Echezona E. Ezeanolue, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
• Juliet Iwelunmor, University of Illinois
• Ibitola Asaolu, University of Arizona
• Michael C. Obiefune, Training and Research-Global Solutions-PeTR-GS
• Chinenye O. Ezeanolue, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
• Alice Osuji, Training and Research-Global Solutions-PeTR-GS
• Amaka G. Ogidi, Training and Research-Global Solutions-PeTR-GS
• Aaron T. Hunt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Dina Patel, Training and Research-Global Solutions-PeTR-GS
• Wei Yang, University of Nevada, Reno
• John E. Ehiri, University of Arizona

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-10-2015

Publication Title

BMC Public Health

Volume

15

Issue

1

First page number:

1

Last page number:

6

Abstract

Despite the growing body of evidence on use of modern contraceptives among women in sub-Saharan African countries, little is known about the broader context in which female decision-making concerning contraceptive use occurs, particularly the role of their male partners’ awareness and support of modern contraceptives.

File Format

pdf

File Size

391 KB

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Repository Citation

Ezeanolue, E. E., Iwelunmor, J., Asaolu, I., Obiefune, M. C., Ezeanolue, C. O., Osuji, A., Ogidi, A. G., Hunt, A. T., Patel, D., Yang, W., Ehiri, J. E. (2015). Impact of male partner’s awareness and support for contraceptives on female intent to use contraceptives in southeast Nigeria. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 1-6.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2216-1