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CORRELATES OF INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND USE OF LARCs AMONG WOMEN IN SAGAMU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA

Authors: Soneye Florence, & AGBEDE Catherine

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: African Journal Of Health, Nursing And Midwifery

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Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) methods are highly effective
methods of birth control including intrauterine devices (IUD) and the implant. There is often
a lower rate of usage with these methods due to factors such as high upfront cost, invasive
insertion methods, and possible side effects. This research established the correlates of
information seeking behavior and use of long acting reversible contraceptives among women
attending infant welfare clinic in Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. A crosssectional survey research design of the was employed in the study. Two hundred and sixtythree (263) women attending infant welfare clinic were sampled for this study. A selfdesigned questionnaire was the main instrument used for data collection, which was pilot
tested through test-re-test and yielded a reliability coefficient (index) of 0.813. Five research
questions and four hypotheses were formulated and tested. Analyses of data was done using
both descriptive (frequency counts and percentages) and inferential (multiple regression)
statistics fixed at the .05 significant levels. The findings from this study showed significant
associations between knowledge on information about LARC, media influence, enabling
factors and the level of use of LARC and information seeking behavior on long acting
reversible contraceptives (LARC) among women attending infant welfare clinic in Sagamu
Local Government Area of Ogun State. In conclusion, women's information seeking
behaviour on the use of long acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) was significantly
associated with knowledge, media, policies, cost and availability of LARC as well as the level
of use of LARC. The study therefore recommends that there is the need for Local Government
health Officials to invest in LARC sensitization campaign for both rural and urban
communities’ strategies towards such efforts would help to increases the prevalence of
modern contraception including LARC in the country

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Soneye,Y.F AGBEDE,C. . (2020). CORRELATES OF INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND USE OF LARCs AMONG WOMEN IN SAGAMU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA, 3 (), 1-1.

Soneye,Y.F AGBEDE,C. . "CORRELATES OF INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND USE OF LARCs AMONG WOMEN IN SAGAMU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA" 3, no (), (2020): 1-1.

Soneye,Y.F and AGBEDE,C. and . (2020). CORRELATES OF INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND USE OF LARCs AMONG WOMEN IN SAGAMU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA, 3 (), pp1-1.

SoneyeYF, AGBEDEC, . CORRELATES OF INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND USE OF LARCs AMONG WOMEN IN SAGAMU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA. 2020, 3 ():1-1.

Soneye,Yetunde Florence, and AGBEDE,Catherine . "CORRELATES OF INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND USE OF LARCs AMONG WOMEN IN SAGAMU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA", 3 . (2020) : 1-1.

S.Yetunde Florence & A.Catherine , "CORRELATES OF INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND USE OF LARCs AMONG WOMEN IN SAGAMU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA" vol.3, no., pp. 1-1, 2020.

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