KNOWLEDGE OF CONTRACEPTION AMONG MARRIED WOMEN IN KWARA STATE

Abstract

This study investigated the knowledge of contraception among married women in Kwara State. Descriptive survey was employed for the study.  393 married women were drawn using multi stage sampling technique. Three research questions were raised to guide the conduct of the study, while two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 alpha level. The instrument used for data collection for this study was a researcher-designed and structured questionnaire entitled “Knowledge of Contraception Questionnaire (KCQ)”. The findings revealed that married women in Kwara State have high level of contraception knowledge. The result of the hypotheses tested revealed that there were significant differences in the knowledge of contraception among married women in Kwara State based on age and educational attainment. It was therefore recommended, among others, that counsellors should organize interactive sessions with the community married women on contraception and reproductive health related matters in order to sustain respondents’ high level of contraception knowledge and to enhance their practices of contraceptive options, married women of different educational backgrounds, especially those with lower qualifications should be regularly enlightened and encouraged on contraception practices, government and non-governmental organizations should not relent in their efforts in helping married women to sustain their high knowledge of contraception and encourage them towards the use of modern contraceptive options