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Factors Affecting Family Planning Services In Rural Area Among Women
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1.6 Assumptions of the study
The study assumes that:
The rural women have some knowledge regarding family planning practices.
The result of the study will help to reduce maternal mortality hopefully as family planning acceptor rate would improve.
The result of the study will help to increase the number of women that
would embrace family planning services most especially in rural area
The result of the study will help in the more involvement men to encourage their women on family planning.
1.7 Scope of the study
The
study was restricted only to the rural women in NsitIbom Local
Government Area of AkwaIbom State. Since this research aimed at
determining the factors affecting family planning services in rural area
among women in NsitIbom Local Government of AkwaIbom State,
thoughtfulness were paid to the several methods of family planningand
independent variables such as educational background of rural women;
culture of rural women; religion of rural women as well as economic
status of rural women were examined.
1.8 Limitations of the study
The challenges that posed a threat to this study include the following;
attitudes of rural women turned to be huge obstacles and time
constraints due to other academic pressure. However,in spite of these
limitations, the study seems promising, possible and achievable.
1.9 Definitions of terms
Family
planning: Refers to the practice of controlling the number of children
rural women has and the interims between their births, mostly by means
of contraception or voluntary sterilization so to improve family
planning services and practices.
Factors: Are elements that brings
about certain effects or results and also what could cause rural women
not to embrace family planning services
Rural area: Refers to
location outside towns and cities where women resides in low population
density with less social and spatial mobility low social change;
agriculture as the major preoccupation and less interest in family
planning.
Methods: are procedures for accomplishing or approaching
something or systematic way of involving women in rural area into family
planning and established effectiveness of family planning.
Contraceptives:
This refers to the several family planning methods that are available
for use in controlling birth example; oral contraceptive pill,
intrauterine contraceptive device etc.
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