PMID- 30693286
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20201001
IS  - 2356-7104 (Print)
IS  - 2314-5757 (Electronic)
IS  - 2314-5757 (Linking)
VI  - 2018
DP  - 2018
TI  - Access to Reproductive Health Services and Maternal Perceptions on Family 
      Planning in an Indigenous Guatemalan Valley.
PG  - 7879230
LID - 10.1155/2018/7879230 [doi]
LID - 7879230
AB  - Objective. To identify reproductive health barriers and perceptions regarding 
      family planning among mothers in ten rural communities of Guatemala. Methods. 
      Data were collected from 85 women in a Nutrition Recuperation Project (NRP) 
      conducted by a freestanding nonprofit clinic in Palajunoj Valley, Guatemala. All 
      nonpregnant women participating in the NRP were eligible for enrollment in this 
      study, and NRP staff members aided in their enrollment. Participants were 
      interviewed and data were entered into a structured questionnaire. Data analysis 
      was conducted using R version 1.1.456. Results. After asking participants if they 
      believed fertility is higher on certain days, only 5 women (5.9%) correctly 
      identified these days as occurring in the middle of the menstrual cycle. 35 women 
      (41.2%) practiced some form of family planning, and 27 (31.8%) reported that they 
      do not know of a place where they could obtain a contraceptive method. 
      Conclusion. There is a lack of education regarding family planning methods in 
      this valley, and the levels of contraception use are below average for rural 
      Guatemala. These findings may implicate substantial health risks for women and 
      children in the valley, and they support the pertinence of education-based 
      interventions in the area of reproductive health behaviors.
FAU - Lambert, Lauren Ashley
AU  - Lambert LA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4546-9243
AD  - Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University, PMB 401617 2301 
      Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
FAU - Hatcher, Jeremy Brittingham
AU  - Hatcher JB
AD  - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1211 Medical Center Dr. Nashville, TN 
      37232, USA.
FAU - Wang, Xinyu
AU  - Wang X
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8641-8923
AD  - Department of Statistics, University of Virginia, PO Box 400135, 148 Amphitheater 
      Way, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20181231
PL  - Egypt
TA  - Int J Reprod Med
JT  - International journal of reproductive medicine
JID - 101633172
PMC - PMC6332965
EDAT- 2019/01/30 06:00
MHDA- 2019/01/30 06:01
PMCR- 2018/12/31
CRDT- 2019/01/30 06:00
PHST- 2018/08/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/12/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/12/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/01/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/01/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/01/30 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/12/31 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2018/7879230 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Reprod Med. 2018 Dec 31;2018:7879230. doi: 10.1155/2018/7879230. 
      eCollection 2018.