Knowledge and Practice of Family Planning among Female Basic School Teachers in the City of Accra, Ghana

Evelyn Akorfa Hodogbe and Samuel Kofi Badu-Nyarko

International Journal of Social Science Studies, 2015, vol. 3, issue 2, 50-60

Abstract: Family planning has been practiced in Ghana since time immemorial but modern practices were adopted in 1969 when the Ghana government launched the program. Since then efforts had been made to publicize and establish family planning clinics across the country aimed at assisting couples to space births, prevent unwanted pregnancies, promote and highlight the acceptability and adoption of contraceptives as well as help infertile families. However, studies on them in relation to the working class have been limited. This study tended to find out the gap between knowledge and practice among female basic school teachers in a selected community in an urban setting in Accra. The study found out that knowledge and awareness about family planning is associated with the practice of family planning (r = 0.747: p

Keywords: Family planning; population. Basic school; contraceptives; female teachers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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