Understanding the Social Meaning of Infertility and Childbearing: A Qualitative Study of the Perception of Childbearing and Childlessness in Northern Ghana

Tabong, Philip Teg‐Nefaah; Adongo, Philip Baba

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“…The social reaction towards a woman as the sole cause of a couples' infertility is distressing and may affect her self-esteem (26,27). Men and women both experience the effects of infertility but compared to women; men uncommonly express concern about its impact on the stability of their marriage (11).…”

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Knowledge of Infertility Among Infertile Women in Bauchi, Northern Nigeria

Dattijo¹,

Andreadis²,

Aminu³

et al. 2016

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Objectives: To evaluate the knowledge, perception and treatment seeking behaviour of infertile women in Bauchi, northern Nigeria. Materials and Methods: Four hundred and six infertile women were surveyed in two hospitals using a structured questionnaire between July 2013 and June 2014. Results: The ages of the respondents ranged from 19 to 42 years with a mean age of 30.5 years (SD: ± 5 years). Many (81%) of the respondents had poor knowledge of risk factors for infertility and over 80% believed in supernatural causes. The women who had secondary level of education or higher (4.78, CI: 2.35-9.71, P < 0.001) and those who were employed (3.08, CI: 1.44-6.58, P = 0.04) had significantly better knowledge compared to those who had lower level of education and were unemployed. Almost three-quarters (n = 299, 73.6%) believed that women bear the blame for infertility and 40.4% see it as a reason for the man to take another wife. Half of the women felt the woman alone should seek for treatment and only 28% reported hospital as their site of initial treatment. Most (n = 370, 91%) felt infertility should be given priority in public hospitals and 308 (76%) believed the government should pay for infertility services as done for other reproductive health (RH) services. Conclusion: There is low level of knowledge of infertility among infertile women in Bauchi and women bear the blame for infertility. There is need for initiatives to improve RH education in Bauchi.

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Knowledge of Infertility Among Infertile Women in Bauchi, Northern Nigeria

Dattijo¹,

Andreadis²,

Aminu³

et al. 2016

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“…The child-bearing abilities of young people across cultures are often valued by parents and grandparents. 17 This suggests that acknowledging family values and expectations in sexual health education may be effective for promoting safe sexual behaviours among young people.…”

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Evaluating the Sharing Stories youth theatre program: an interactive theatre and drama‐based strategy for sexual health promotion among multicultural youth

Roberts

Lobo

Sorenson

2016

Health Prom J of Aust

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Issue addressed: Rates of sexually transmissible infections among young people are high, and there is a need for innovative, youth-focused sexual health promotion programs. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Sharing Stories youth theatre program, which uses interactive theatre and drama-based strategies to engage and educate multicultural youth on sexual health issues. The effectiveness of using drama-based evaluation methods is also discussed. Methods: The youth theatre program participants were 18 multicultural youth from South East Asian, African and Middle Eastern backgrounds aged between 14 and 21 years. Four sexual health drama scenarios and a sexual health questionnaire were used to measure changes in knowledge and attitudes. Results: Participants reported being confident talking to and supporting their friends with regards to safe sex messages, improved their sexual health knowledge and demonstrated a positive shift in their attitudes towards sexual health. Drama-based evaluation methods were effective in engaging multicultural youth and worked well across the cultures and age groups. Conclusions: Theatre and drama-based sexual health promotion strategies are an effective method for up-skilling young people from multicultural backgrounds to be peer educators and good communicators of sexual health information. Dramabased evaluation methods are engaging for young people and an effective way of collecting data from culturally diverse youth. So what?This study recommends incorporating interactive and arts-based strategies into sexual health promotion programs for multicultural youth. It also provides guidance for health promotion practitioners evaluating an arts-based health promotion program using arts-based data collection methods.

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“…Previous studies of infertility among Ghanaian women have found an association with high rates of distress and depression (Alhassan, Ziblim, & Muntaka, 2014;Donkor & Sandall, 2007;Tabong & Adongo, 2013b). Takyi and Broughton (2006) found that ethnic identification may influence divorce.…”

Section: Family and Fertility In Ghanamentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Infertility can be devastating, especially for women, upon whom the blame for infertility disproportionately falls (Fledderjohann, 2012;Hollos et al, 2009;Tabong & Adongo, 2013b).…”

Section: Family and Fertility In Ghanamentioning

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Difficulties Conceiving and Relationship Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana

Fledderjohann

2017

Eur J Population

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Little is known about the relationship between self-identified difficulties conceiving, biomedical infertility, and union instability in sub-Saharan Africa. Previous research suggests that infertility increases the risk of psychological distress and marital conflict, encourages risky sexual behavior, and deprives infertile individuals and couples of an important source of economic and social capital.Qualitative research has suggested that there may be a link between infertility and divorce; less is known about the implications of infertility for unmarried couples. In this paper, discrete-time hazard Results show a positive relationship between perceived difficulties conceiving and relationship instability for both married women and those in nonmarital sexual unions; this relationship, however, does not hold for biomedical infertility. Future research should examine this relationship using nationally representative data in a cross-national comparison to determine whether results hold across the subcontinent.

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Understanding the Social Meaning of Infertility and Childbearing: A Qualitative Study of the Perception of Childbearing and Childlessness in Northern Ghana

Cited by 100 publications

References 18 publications

Knowledge of Infertility Among Infertile Women in Bauchi, Northern Nigeria

Knowledge of Infertility Among Infertile Women in Bauchi, Northern Nigeria

Evaluating the Sharing Stories youth theatre program: an interactive theatre and drama‐based strategy for sexual health promotion among multicultural youth

Difficulties Conceiving and Relationship Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana

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