Perceptions of Postpartum Family Planning in Extended Postpartum Period among Men in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania: A Qualitative Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Several policies and programs have aimed to expand rates of extended postpartum family planning among women than among men in low- and middle-income countries and Tanzania is no exception. This study aimed to explore perceptions of men on postpartum family planning in extended postpartum period among men in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania. METHODS: This qualitative study collected information using pretested interview guide from 28 male participants whose spouses were currently in the extended postpartum period. Participants were purposeful and conveniently enrolled in the study. The study was conducted in three primary health facilities in Morogoro Municipality in Tanzania from 22 February to 24 March 2021. RESULTS: The study found that most participants demonstrated a good understanding of postpartum family planning methods and their advantages. Male condoms were mostly preferred as their main postpartum family planning method; however, compliance with condom use was reported to be very low. Results on religious considerations and beliefs about postpartum family planning were mixed. CONCLUSION: The choice of postpartum family planning services among men is limited. Male involvement and strengthened accessibility of postpartum family planning services are key in accelerating progress in improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".