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    Enhancing contraceptive use: assessment of determinants of contraceptive use among rural women in Nor thern Ghana
    (2005-11-09) Kanyomse, Ernest Aweligeya
    Contraceptive use prevalence among women in the Upper East region is low as 12% (GSS et al., 2004). The study therefore sought to assess the determinants that influence the use of contraceptives and identified those that are significant among rural women. The study was a quantitative cross sectional study conducted in the Builsa district in the Upper East Region. Three hundred and four women aged 15-49 years and 110 married men were interviewed. A multi-stage cluster sampling was used. A sub-district was randomly selected and the communities in it were randomly selected and all females of the reproductive age and their spouses were interviewed. Contraceptive use prevalence was 17.6% among the women. The mean age at first marriage was 19.6 and 22.9 years for female and males respectively. Women who married at 30 years and above were 2.7 times more likely to use contraceptives as compared to those who married at 15-19 years [OR=2.7, (95% CI: 1.2, 5.9), p<0.OlJ. Women who were Christians were twice more likely to use contraceptives when compared to women who practiced traditional religion [OR=2.0, (95 % CI: 1.01, 4.2), p