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  • Title: Integrated Family Planning, Nutrition, and Parasite-Control Project in Ghana: a baseline survey report.
    Author: Odai I.
    Journal: Integration; 1990 Oct; (25):25-36. PubMed ID: 12316755.
    Abstract:
    In 1987, the Integrated Family Planning, Nutrition, and Parasite Control Project interviewed 564 people from 9 communities in Awutu, Ghana to learn their perceptions of health problems and the level of family planning (FP) knowledge and practice in those communities. 95.2% or their spouses breast fed their infants and 72.5% supplemented breast milk at 8 months. Even though 57.3% had 5 children, most were young and still could have had more children. 51.6% wanted 4-6 children. 86.7% were aware of FP and the majority (46%) heard about it from the maternal and child health/FP clinic. It was also the leading source of information about contraception. Mass media ranked a distant 2nd (15.3%). 66.3% knew of at least 1 contraceptive and the leading known contraceptive was oral contraceptives (OCs). 50.5% said the ideal duration for spacing births was 3 years. 82.6% were not currently using contraceptives and 68.6% never did use them. Of those who had never used them, 58.8% did not wish to use contraceptives. The majority of couples (49%) using contraceptives used OCs. The clinic served 56.1% of contraceptive acceptors. Drug stores represented the next leading contraceptive source (33.7%). 72.4% believed the prices of contraceptives to be inexpensive. 89.4% did not know about side effects of contraceptives. 80.9% had not heard any rumors about contraceptives. Of those that did, 34.3% said that contraceptives cause sterility. 66.1% did not know the effectiveness of contraceptives. 61.2% did not prefer any contraceptive method over the other, but 32.4% preferred artificial methods. 25% preferred them because they were familiar with them. The typical respondent was of the Akan ethnic group, married, 20-49 years old, a farmer, and a Christian. The typical respondent also had little to no formal education and an income 20,000 cedis.
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