“If I chose to listen to people, I possibly wouldn’t be using family planning”: Impact of external influences on women’s contraceptive autonomy in rural Northwest Tanzania
Valencia J Lambert,
Anna Samson,
Aneth Nzali
et al.
Abstract:Background: There is an increasing emphasis on promoting women’s autonomy in reproductive decision-making, particularly given global efforts to increase contraceptive access and uptake. Scales to quantify autonomy have inconsistently included the effect of external influences and focused primarily on influences of partners. Objectives: This study aimed to gain greater depth in understanding how influences including and beyond a woman’s partner affect her contraceptive decision-making, as well as how external i… Show more
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