4
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Getting to intent: Are social norms influencing intentions to use modern contraception in the DRC?

      research-article

      Read this article at

      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Meeting the reproductive health needs of women in post-conflict settings is a global health priority. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, social norms perpetuate gender-based violence and contribute to low contraceptive use and high fertility. The Masculinité, Famille, et Foi (MFF) intervention is working with communities in Kinshasa to create normative environments supportive of modern contraception access and use. Our analysis uses survey data collected from 900 men and women in 17 community groups prior to the MFF intervention. We aimed to measure the extent to which social norms influence intentions to use modern contraception. Using multiple items to assess social norms and reference groups related to family planning and gender equity, we identified four distinct social norms constructs through factor analysis. Through structural equation modeling, we found that social norms influence intentions to use modern contraception overall, but that normative influence varies by gender.

          Related collections

          Most cited references28

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          A Grammar of Institutions

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: found
            • Article: not found

            Social norms: A review

            Social norms, as a topic of inquiry, has garnered significant attention from a variety of perspectives in recent years. Because of the rapidly-growing interest in social norms from scholars in multiple disciplines, this area of scholarship is often characterized by a lack of clarity on what constitutes social norms and how key concepts are operationalized. The objectives of this article are to (a) provide a review of the fast-expanding literature on social norms, (b) delineate similarities and differences in key operational definitions, (c) review theories that explicate how norms affect behaviors, (d) propose a revised theoretical framework that helps organize our understanding of normative inf luence on behavior, and (e) provide suggestions for future research in this area. This review highlights the need to consider whether a behavior is enacted spontaneously or after deliberation. If the former, whichever attitude or norm is most salient will likely have a direct effect on behavior. If the latter, we propose that behavioral, individual, and contextual attributes will influence the extent to which norms shape behavioral intentions and subsequent behavior. Finally, this review highlights the need for more studies designed to test the causal relationship between social norms and behaviors, as well as those that study norms from a qualitative perspective.
              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              Unmet Need for Family Planning in Developing Countries and Implications for Population Policy

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Formal analysisRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Formal analysisRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Formal analysisRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
                plos
                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                16 July 2019
                2019
                : 14
                : 7
                : e0219617
                Affiliations
                [1 ] FHI 360, Durham, NC, United States of America
                [2 ] University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
                [3 ] Institute of Reproductive Health at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
                [4 ] Tearfund, Teddington, United Kingdom
                Monash University, AUSTRALIA
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6502-2986
                Article
                PONE-D-19-00924
                10.1371/journal.pone.0219617
                6634398
                31310641
                c16c1bb4-fe68-421f-97fc-4e737c3f3bf0
                © 2019 Costenbader et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 10 January 2019
                : 27 June 2019
                Page count
                Figures: 3, Tables: 5, Pages: 18
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000200, United States Agency for International Development;
                Award ID: #AID-OAA-A-15-0042
                This study was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under Cooperative Agreement #AID-OAA-A-15-0042. Bryan Shaw was principal investigator of the award and Nana Apenem Dagadu was co-investigator. The funding agency had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
                Categories
                Research Article
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Women's Health
                Obstetrics and Gynecology
                Contraception
                Female Contraception
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Women's Health
                Obstetrics and Gynecology
                Contraception
                Male Contraception
                Social Sciences
                Anthropology
                Cultural Anthropology
                Religion
                Social Sciences
                Sociology
                Religion
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Pharmacology
                Drugs
                Contraceptives
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Bioengineering
                Biotechnology
                Medical Devices and Equipment
                Contraceptives
                Engineering and Technology
                Bioengineering
                Biotechnology
                Medical Devices and Equipment
                Contraceptives
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Medical Devices and Equipment
                Contraceptives
                Social Sciences
                Sociology
                Communications
                Social Communication
                Research and Analysis Methods
                Research Design
                Survey Research
                Surveys
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Psychology
                Collective Human Behavior
                Interpersonal Relationships
                Social Sciences
                Psychology
                Collective Human Behavior
                Interpersonal Relationships
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Psychology
                Behavior
                Social Sciences
                Psychology
                Behavior
                Custom metadata
                All data, metadata, and codebook files pertaining to this manuscript are available from the Passages Project: Masculinité, Famille, et Foi (MFF) Intervention Baseline Women's Survey (Subset) dataset and the Passages Project: Masculinité, Famille, et Foi (MFF) Intervention Baseline Men's Survey (Subset) at Harvard Dataverse ( https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7FAY01 and https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NKPGEV, respectively).

                Uncategorized
                Uncategorized

                Comments

                Comment on this article