Abstract
Family planning is a population control method practiced in various countries including Nigeria; however, it cannot be practice unless people are aware of it and its methods. Thus, awareness, knowledge and comprehension of family planning messages as predictors of practice is studied. 478 copies of questionnaire were distributed to that number of civil servants at the Lagos state secretariat, Alausa from where the population for the study was drawn. With a response rate of 95.8%, 458 copies were retrieved and analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 22, while hypotheses were tested using the Pearson Chi-Square. Findings revealed that there is high awareness of family planning messages among study participants with posters as the major medium of awareness. The study also found that the long-acting family planning methods are the most known family planning methods and that the practice is well known and common among study participants.
Highlights
Planning is about helping individuals or couples determine the number of children they wish to or not to have
The Pearson Chi-Square row in Table 1 predicts that since the p-value 3.7% is less than the alpha value 5%, this means the result is statistically significant and the alternative hypothesis which states that „awareness of family planning messages has significant influence on practice of family planning‟ should be accepted and the null hypothesis should be rejected
With the significance of the family planning messages disseminated through Newman Street and the fact that 22.1% of the respondents are unaware of the series, it is recommended that the agencies responsible for the programme, such as Centre for Communication Programmes Nigeria (CCPN) and Nollywood Concept Promotions (NCP), should further promote the series and air it on more channels and, where possible, have a channel dedicated to airing only the series as it is with Big Brother Nigeria
Summary
Planning is about helping individuals or couples determine the number of children they wish to or not to have. The concept has been around for centuries with different generations across different regions of the world adopting various ways of controlling childbirth and increasing child spacing in order to enable couples give birth to the number of children they can adequately care for. Planning is considered to be a safer and better approach of child spacing and child bearing when compared to abortion because it adopts a proactive process in helping highly fertile couples and individuals to regulate their fertility and produce the number of children they want in such manner as to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity. The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2018) observed that main problems preventing access to and use of birth control among women in Africa are unavailability, poor health care services, spousal disapproval, inadequate information, religious concerns, and misinformation about the effects of birth control
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