Oni Tosin Olajide, Petlele Rebaone, Banjo Olufunmilayo Olufunmilola, Bankole Akinrinola, Akinyemi Akanni Ibukun
Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Department of Demography and Population Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Contracept Reprod Med. 2024 Jun 13;9(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s40834-024-00293-9.
Male involvement in Family Planning (FP) is an exercise of men's sexual and reproductive health rights. However, the measurement of male involvement has been highly inconsistent and too discretional in FP studies. As a result, we used bibliometric tools to analyze the existing measures of male involvement in FP and recommend modifications for standard measures.
Using developed search terms, we searched for research articles ever published on male involvement in FP from Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed databases. The search results were filtered for studies that focused on Africa. A total of 152 research articles were selected after the screening, and bibliometric analysis was performed in R.
Results showed that 54% of the studies measured male involvement through approval for FP, while 46.7% measured it through the attitude of males to FP. About 31% measured male involvement through input in deciding FP method, while others measured it through inputs in the choice of FP service center (13.6%), attendance at FP clinic/service center (17.8%), and monetary provision for FP services/materials (12.4%). About 82.2% of the studies used primary data, though the majority (61.2%) obtained information on male involvement from women alone. Only about one in five studies (19.1%) got responses from males and females, with fewer focusing on males alone.
Most studies have measured male involvement in FP through expressed or perceived approval for FP. However, these do not sufficiently capture male involvement and do not reflect women's autonomy. Other more encompassing measures of male involvement, which would reflect the amount of intimacy among heterosexual partners, depict the extent of the exercise of person-centered rights, and encourage the collection of union-specific data, are recommended.
男性参与计划生育是对男性性健康和生殖健康权利的一种践行。然而，在计划生育研究中，对男性参与情况的衡量一直高度不一致且过于随意。因此，我们使用文献计量工具来分析现有的男性参与计划生育的衡量方法，并建议对标准衡量方法进行改进。
我们使用拟定的检索词，在Scopus、科学网和PubMed数据库中搜索以往发表的关于男性参与计划生育的研究文章。搜索结果针对聚焦非洲的研究进行筛选。筛选后共选出152篇研究文章，并在R软件中进行文献计量分析。
结果显示，54%的研究通过对计划生育的认可来衡量男性参与情况，而46.7%的研究通过男性对计划生育的态度来衡量。约31%的研究通过在决定计划生育方法方面的投入来衡量男性参与情况，其他研究则通过在选择计划生育服务中心方面的投入（13.6%）、到计划生育诊所/服务中心就诊（17.8%）以及为计划生育服务/材料提供资金（12.4%）来衡量。约82.2%的研究使用了原始数据，不过大多数（61.2%）仅从女性那里获取关于男性参与情况的信息。只有约五分之一的研究（19.1%）获得了男性和女性的回应，关注男性单独情况的更少。
大多数研究通过对计划生育的明确或感知认可来衡量男性参与情况。然而，这些方法并未充分涵盖男性参与情况，也未反映女性的自主性。建议采用其他更全面的男性参与衡量方法，这些方法应能反映异性伴侣之间的亲密程度，描述以人为本权利的行使程度，并鼓励收集特定伴侣的数据。
