By Stadear Gustaph | Project Coordinator
CCDO experience on family planning knowledge demonstrated on our ability to deliver excellent services to our adolescent youth who were lacking knowledge awareness on family planning and RH health issues due to the following identified data in our field studies; respondents were asked to name all of the birth spacing methods (the term generally used to refer to family planning in Tanzania) with which they were familiar. Changes over time in the percentage of women and men who could name at least one modern contraceptive method were statistically significant in all three groups. In the pretest, this percentage was similar for women in each group. In contrast, the posttest reveals significant increases in contraceptive knowledge in all groups (p<.001). The largest increase was found in the cbd group, followed by the group that received education only; although knowledge also rose significantly in the control group, the size of the increase was smaller. Each group also showed significant increases between surveys (p<.001) in their knowledge of each method (not shown). The pill was the most widely known method in all three groups: At posttest, 75% of the CBD group mentioned this method, as did 67% of the education-only group, compared with 49% of the control group. More than half of those in the CBD group mentioned spermicidal during the interview, probably reflecting their greater access to this method (not shown), while spermicidal were virtually unknown in the education-only and control groups (cited by less than 10% of respondents). Similar gains in contraceptive knowledge were seen among men in the groups receiving CBD and those receiving education only (p<.001). A smaller, no significant increase was also observed in the control group. During the pretest, the CBD and the control groups had similar contraceptive knowledge levels, while knowledge was significantly lower in the education-only group. In the posttest, the CBD group had the highest percentage of men naming at least one modern method, followed by the education group. The pill and the condom were the most widely known methods in all three groups—known among more than two-thirds of the CBD group, half of the education-only group and about one-third of the control group (not shown). The increase in knowledge for these two methods was significant for the CBD and education-only groups (p<.001). Knowledge of spermicidal increased significantly only in the CBD group (p<.001), however.
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