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- Title
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND FAMILY PLANNING BEHAVIOUR IN NORTH WEST NIGERIA: EFFECTS OF A HAUSA LANGUAGE RADIO DRAMA.
- Authors
Connolly, Scott W.; Jah, Fatou; Barker, Kriss; Ryerson, William; Okon, Ephraim; DeSarno, Mike; Bunn, Jan; Kyari, Gimba Victor; Haliru, Yusuf; Alli-Balogun, Kayode
- Abstract
Contraceptive prevalence (CPR) in North West Nigeria is the lowest in the country coinciding with high fertility driven primarily by large family ideation. Research shows that communication about family planning, especially between spouses/partners leads to adoption of a modern method of contraception. To promote spouse and partner communication and to increase family planning use, an entertainmenteducation radio serial drama was broadcast featuring characters that modelled how to discuss having smaller families, birth spacing, contraceptive use, and maternal and child health. A post-test representative survey of 649 participants found that 71 percent listened to the programme each week. Multivariate analysis found that regular listeners were 2.4 (95% CI 1.4, 4.3) times more likely than nonlisteners to say they "currently use something to delay or avoid pregnancy." On several other behavioural and attitudinal indicators, results showed that regular listeners to the programme had more favourable scores than non-listeners to the programme.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; REPRODUCTIVE health; FAMILY planning; HAUSA language; RADIO dramas; CONTRACEPTIVES
- Publication
Journal of Development Communication, 2019, Vol 30, Issue 2, p30
- ISSN
0128-3863
- Publication type
Article