Oni G A, McCarthy J
Stud Fam Plann. 1986 Jul-Aug;17(4):165-71.
This paper examines the use of contraceptives among women aged 15-35 in the urban area of Ilorin, Nigeria, with particular focus on use for the purpose of spacing births. Approximately 19 percent of ever-married women in the sample had used contraceptives at some time and approximately 6 percent were using at the time of the survey. Results suggest that some women have used or are using contraceptives as a substitute for prolonged periods of postpartum sexual abstinence. Whereas all groups of women in the study prefer to maintain an interval of two years between births, less traditional women no longer prefer to observe long periods of postpartum sexual abstinence. For some women, therefore, there is a wide gap between the length of preferred birth interval and the length of preferred abstinence. The magnitude of this gap is significantly associated with both ever use and current use of contraceptives. Other variables found to have a significant independent effect on contraceptive use were total number of children desired, maternal age, and maternal education.
本文考察了尼日利亚伊洛林市区15至35岁女性避孕药具的使用情况，特别关注其用于生育间隔的情况。样本中约19%的已婚女性曾在某些时候使用过避孕药具，约6%的女性在调查时正在使用。结果表明，一些女性使用或正在使用避孕药具作为产后长期禁欲的替代方法。尽管研究中的所有女性群体都希望生育间隔为两年，但不太传统的女性不再倾向于遵守长时间的产后禁欲。因此，对一些女性来说，理想生育间隔长度与理想禁欲长度之间存在很大差距。这一差距的大小与避孕药具的既往使用和当前使用均显著相关。其他被发现对避孕药具使用有显著独立影响的变量包括期望子女总数、母亲年龄和母亲教育程度。
