title: Attitudes of males to contraception in a Kenyan rural population.
abstract: The results of a contraceptive attitudes survey on 355 men carried out between January and March 1987 in Machakos District of Kenya are presented. 93.2% indicated that they approved of Family Planning. Although 63.9% of the respondents felt that family size decision making should be a couple's responsibility and 78.6% of respondents preferred a husband and wife approach to family planning counselling, 56.9% said that the women should be the one to actually use the contraceptive. 88.7% approved of female sterilization while 64.5% disapproved of vasectomy. There is need to re-evaluate the current integrated maternal child health-family planning services to actively and effectively accommodate men.
authors.affiliation: Department of Reproductive Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret.
authors.forename: E O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Were
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Karanja
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003267:Contraception / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003657:Decision Making; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D008297:Male; D008571:Men / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012424:Rural Population