ABSTRACT
Considering the high number of Afghan refugees in Zahedan and the important issue of their life style, the present study was carried out to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of Afghan Refugee women residing in Zahedan about family planning. A sample of 397 married women was interviewed at their homes. Statistical analysis was performed using Chi-square, t-student and Kruskal Wallis tests by SPSS. Our findings indicated that there existed low marriage and pregnancy age and high rate of pregnancy and illiteracy among them. Most Afghan refugee women had knowledge about oral contraceptives and the most common contraception used by them was oral and injectable contraception. Forty eight and sixth percent were using no contraception, for which, intention to have more children, being pregnant and husband's disagreement were mentioned as main reasons. Unwanted pregnancy was reported by 20.4% with improper use of contraception as its main reason. They believed that having son in the family [51.8%] and early marriage of daughters [57.8%] are necessary. There was a significant relationship between knowledge, attitude, practice with literacy, husband's literacy, ethnicity, and their religion [P < 0.001]. Iranian health system presents health services to refugee Afghan women similar to Iranian women. It is necessary to continue those services and to provide effective training based on their changing needs
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Humans , Female , Refugees , Knowledge , Attitude/ethnology , Marriage/ethnology , Educational Status , Afghanistan/ethnology , Contraception/statistics & numerical data , Pregnancy Rate/ethnology , Reproductive Health Services/standards , Reproductive Health Services/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
Objetivo. Caracterizar el calendario, la intensidad y el ritmo reproductivos en dos etnias: los Embera en los subgrupos Eyabida, Dobida y Chamibida, y los Zenúes. Material y métodos. Es un estudio sociodemográfico comparativo con la técnica de historia reproductiva. En una muestra no aleatoria, estratificada por etnia, se hacen comparaciones intra e interétnicas entre 1996 y 1997, en el Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. Las pruebas estadísticas aplicadas para muestras independientes, utilizando el procesador Epi-Info fueron t de Student para la diferencia de promedios y ji cuadrada para diferencia de proporciones. Resultados. El comportamiento reproductivo se caracteriza por una entrada a la unión entre los 14.6 y los 15.8 años; con intervalos de 1 a 1.3 años antes de la primera gestación, seguida por intervalos intergenésicos cortos entre 48 por ciento y 73.3 por ciento con presión reproductiva mayor de 50 por ciento durante la edad fértil y ritmo acelerado entre los 30 y los 34 años con tasas de fecundidad hasta 10.5 hijos, excepto las chamibida con 3.9. Conclusiones. Las políticas sobre salud reproductiva actuales están lejos de ser apropiadas, en tanto desconocen la especificidad de estos grupos étnicos. El texto completo en inglés de este artículo está disponible en: http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.html
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Humans , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Middle Aged , Birth Intervals , Ethnicity/statistics & numerical data , Age Factors , Colombia , Pregnancy Rate/ethnologyABSTRACT
La tasa Bruta de Natalidad (TBN) que es, la cantidad de nacimientos durante un periodo de tiempo dado, en el periodo de 1984 a 1994, la tasa global de fecundidad es el numero de nacimientos vivos por cada mujer entre los 15 y 49 años de edad.