Purpose: Communication between the spouse on family planning issues predisposes to approval of man for wife use contraceptives. Most don’t even initiate communication as a result misconceptions surrounding planning. This study examined how misconception and spousal affect planning.
 Methods: The was cross sectional carried out in rural community. Multistage sampling technique used selectin...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality ratio in Nigeria is among the highest in the world with an estimated 160 women dying every day of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. In addition to appropriate management of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, preventing unwanted pregnancies is an effective way to reduce maternal deaths. Identifying potentially modifiable factors asso...

OBJECTIVES This study examined if older adults' psychological adjustment to widowhood varies based on whether the death was sudden or anticipated and if these effects are mediated by death context characteristics (e.g., predeath caregiving, nursing home use, spouse's age at death, and couple's communication about the death). METHODS The effects of forewarning on multiple indicators of mental ...

We examined whether 164 heterosexual, married couples' reports of the sanctification of their marriage and their spiritual intimacy predicted their observed behavior across the transition to parenthood, using highly conservative statistical strategies to control for time-invariant factors and time-varying factors (marital love, collaborative communication skills) that could explain away these l...

PURPOSE Epidemiologic data from various regions have shown familial correlations of cardiovascular risk factors and the metabolic syndrome (MES), but not spousal concordance that reflects shared environmental factors, which we describe in a Korean general population. METHODS We selected 3141 couples; both partners of all couples had completed a national health examination. MES was determined ...

The purpose of this study is to identify the causal relationship between women’s working status and the risk of spousal violence against them. In India, working women tend to be more subject to physical spousal violence than non-working women. Given that there is virtually no option outside marriage for women in India, more spousal violence against working women can be understood as a result of...

Female education creates awareness that their reproductive and health seeking behaviour show a noticeable difference than illiterate women. Ample research has been carried out to find out the linkages between female education and fertility. It has been argued that female education empowers women mainly through four ways. Their involvement in family decision –making, autonomy and control over ho...

We conducted a cross-sectional survey to determine the prevalence of, and factors affecting, spousal violence among 3271 ever-married women attending 12 randomly selected family health centres in Alexandria Governorate. More than three-quarters of the participants (77%) reported experiencing spousal violence during their marital life. Emotional violence was the most common type reported (71.0%)...

INTRODUCTION Violence against women is regarded as a major violation of human rights, and several socio-behavioral aspects among victims have been identified as important determinants of spousal violence experience. Pakistani nationally representative contextual evidence is scarce in this regard. We aimed to estimate prevalence of spousal violence, and explore its association with intergenerati...