Examining the linkages between maternity services and postpartum modern contraceptive adoption among young women in India: Insights from the 2015-16 and 2019-21 National Family Health Survey.
PLoS One
; 18(8): e0289701, 2023.
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| ID: mdl-37556482
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The adoption of maternity services and postpartum modern contraception are the two most crucial components that help in reducing maternal and infant mortality; still, India is consistently struggling with it. This paper, therefore, aimed to examine the linkages between use of maternity services and postpartum modern contraceptive adoption. DATA ANDMETHODS:
The required reproductive calendar data were extracted from the 2015-16 and 2019-21 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) datasets. The assessment was made based on a sample of currently married women aged 15-24 years who had given most recent childbirth in five years preceding the survey. For the analysis, a time-to-event approach was applied using the Kaplan-Meier survival statistic, Log-Rank Chi-square test and Cox-Proportional Hazard (Cox-PH) models.RESULTS:
The results revealed that the proportion of postpartum modern contraceptive uptake among young users increased by 9%, from 33% in 2015-16 to 42% in 2019-21. The Cox-PH models revealed that, in both NFHS waves, the associations between various components of maternity services and postpartum modern contraceptive uptake were strongly significant, even after controlling for selected socio-economic and demographic correlates.CONCLUSIONS:
The findings of this study reinforced urgent need for implementing integrated maternal-child health and family planning programmes and for boosting effective family planning counselling by health professionals to promote and motivate young women with a desire to early adoption of modern contraception in subsequent months after a recent childbirth.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Contexto em Saúde:
2_ODS3
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Anticoncepção
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Anticoncepcionais
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Implementation_research
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
PLoS One
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article