PMID- 29595025
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180604
LR  - 20191113
IS  - 1118-4841 (Print)
IS  - 1118-4841 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 1
DP  - 2017 Mar
TI  - Contraceptives: Adolescents' Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices. A Case Study of 
      Rural Mhondoro-Ngezi District, Zimbabwe.
PG  - 49-63
AB  - Adolescent reproductive health behaviour has become an emerging world concern as 
      the age at menarche and sexual debut has plummeted globally. The primary 
      objective of the paper is to understand the importance of reproductive health 
      education to contraceptive use among adolescents in Mhondoro-Ngezi District. The 
      paper also investigates knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices (KABP) 
      pertaining to contraceptive use among adolescents. Factors underlying KABP are 
      further explored. In addition, this paper investigates the availability, 
      accessibility, acceptability and affordability of contraceptives to adolescents. 
      These issues are assessed from the perspective of all duty bearers (mothers, 
      fathers, healthcare providers, religious leaders and secondary school teachers). 
      The paper is based on a cross-sectional study which was conducted in 
      Mhondoro-Ngezi area. A total of 185 adolescents aged 15-19 years were sampled 
      with a sex ratio of 67. The study triangulated both quantitative and qualitative 
      methods of data collection. The results in this paper indicate that adolescents 
      in Mhondoro-Ngezi engage in early sexual debut. Despite the fact that knowledge 
      about modern contraceptives is universal (96%) among adolescents in 
      Mhondoro-Ngezi, contraceptive use is very low, 21%. Limited contraceptive use 
      among adolescents in the study area is a result of the interplay of demographic, 
      policy, socio-cultural, religious and economic factors. The study has thus 
      recommends that the government and other relevant stakeholders to formulate 
      policies that promote reproductive education in order to foster the utilization 
      of contraceptives by adolescents.
FAU - Moyo, Stanzia
AU  - Moyo S
AD  - University of Zimbabwe, Centre for Population Studies, Harare.
FAU - Rusinga, Oswell
AU  - Rusinga O
AD  - Great Zimbabwe University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 
      Masvingo.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Nigeria
TA  - Afr J Reprod Health
JT  - African journal of reproductive health
JID - 9712263
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Adolescent Behavior
MH  - Contraception/methods/psychology/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Contraception Behavior/*ethnology/psychology
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Culture
MH  - Female
MH  - Focus Groups
MH  - *Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Reproductive Health/*ethnology
MH  - Rural Population
MH  - Sexual Behavior/*ethnology/psychology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Young Adult
MH  - Zimbabwe
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Contraceptives
OT  - Culture
OT  - Reproductive health problems
OT  - Sex
OT  - Sexuality
EDAT- 2018/03/30 06:00
MHDA- 2018/06/05 06:00
CRDT- 2018/03/30 06:00
PHST- 2018/03/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/03/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/06/05 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.29063/ajrh2017/v21i1.4 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Afr J Reprod Health. 2017 Mar;21(1):49-63. doi: 10.29063/ajrh2017/v21i1.4.