TY  - JOUR
TT  - INTER-SPOUSAL COMMUNICATION AS A DETERMINANT OF CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN NIGERIA: A MIXED METHOD
AU  - Olawole-ısaac, A.
AU  - Oni Gbolahan, A.
AU  - Oladosu, Muyiwa
AU  - Amoo Emmanuel, O.
AU  - Adekola, Paul O.
PY  - 2017
DA  - August
DO  - 10.18769/ijasos.337324
JF  - IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences
JO  - IJASOS
PB  - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2411-183X
SP  - 645
EP  - 654
VL  - 3
IS  - 8
KW  - Inter-spousal
KW  - Communication
KW  - Contraceptive
KW  - Quantitative
KW  - Qualitative
KW  - Nigeria
N2  - The need for understanding the level of communicationamong couples is important in reproductive health. Agreement by couples oncontraceptive adoption is a major consideration if population growth will bereduced. Therefore this paper tests the hypothesis that there is no significantrelationship between inter-spousal communication and contraceptive use inNigeria. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative method of datacollection. The quantitative data employed the 2013 Nigeria Demographic andHealth Survey Couple recode dataset, while the qualitative data was collectedusing Focus Group Discussion. Data was analyzed using Stata13 and the qualitativedata was analyzed using NVivo 11 software. Theresult of the logistic regression model showed that there is a significant relationshipbetween inter-spousal communication and contraceptive use (P<0.001). The resultof the unadjusted model showed a Log-likelihood ratio [LLR] = 2335.0875, R2= 27.05% and Chi-square= 1731.32 on 29 degree of freedom while, the adjustedmodel showed a [LLR] = 435.0011, R2 = 38.20%, Chi-square= 268.36 on32 degrees of freedom, p<0.05. The reduction of 1296.3189 in theLog-likelihood ratio and an increase of 11.15 % in the R2 indicate avery good fit. In the qualitativestudy the findings showed that majority of the couples using contraceptivesdiscussed with their spouses and more than half of them received their husband’smaximum support. We conclude that couples communication will improve theuptake of contraceptives and reduce the increasing population growth inNigeria. 
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