PMID- 12709309
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030523
LR  - 20220409
IS  - 0190-3187 (Print)
IS  - 0190-3187 (Linking)
VI  - 29
IP  - 1
DP  - 2003 Mar
TI  - Can women's childbearing and contraceptive intentions predict contraceptive 
      demand? Findings from a longitudinal study in Central India.
PG  - 25-31
AB  - CONTEXT: To predict the need for contraceptive services, family planning program 
      managers often rely on levels of unmet need derived from measures of childbearing 
      intentions. However, women's intention to use a method has not received as much 
      attention as a measure of contraceptive demand. METHODS: A survey was conducted 
      in 1999 in rural Madhya Pradesh, India, among a subsample of women who had 
      participated in the 1992-1993 National Family Health Survey (NFHS). The women's 
      childbearing and contraceptive behaviors were compared with the intentions they 
      had stated in the NFHS, and logistic regression was performed to analyze the 
      association between socioeconomic and demographic variables and inconsistent 
      behavior. RESULTS: Among women who were fecund and married in 1992-1993, 29% of 
      those who intended to have children and 61% of those who intended not to have 
      children failed to adhere to their intentions by 1999. Furthermore, 51% of women 
      who were not practicing contraception at the time of the NFHS but planned to do 
      so acted against their intention by 1999, as did 29% of those who planned not to 
      use a method. NFHS respondents who intended both not to have children and to use 
      a method were more likely than others to have used a method by 1999 (63% vs. 
      25-41%). Age and history of child death were key factors associated with 
      inconsistency between women's intentions and behavior. CONCLUSIONS: In India, use 
      of both contraceptive and childbearing intentions predicts contraceptive demand 
      better than use of either indicator alone, and may thus help program planners 
      estimate future demand for contraceptive services.
FAU - Roy, T K
AU  - Roy TK
AD  - International Insitute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India.
FAU - Ram, F
AU  - Ram F
FAU - Nangia, Parveen
AU  - Nangia P
FAU - Saha, Uma
AU  - Saha U
FAU - Khan, Nizamuddin
AU  - Khan N
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Int Fam Plan Perspect
JT  - International family planning perspectives
JID - 7907371
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Community Health Planning/methods
MH  - Contraception/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Contraception Behavior/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MH  - Health Services Needs and Demand/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - India
MH  - *Intention
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Odds Ratio
MH  - *Parity
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Regression Analysis
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
EDAT- 2003/04/24 05:00
MHDA- 2003/05/24 05:00
CRDT- 2003/04/24 05:00
PHST- 2003/04/24 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/05/24 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/04/24 05:00 [entrez]
AID - 2902503 [pii]
AID - 10.1363/ifpp.29.025.03 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int Fam Plan Perspect. 2003 Mar;29(1):25-31. doi: 10.1363/ifpp.29.025.03.