Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban Nairobi
The COVID-19 response has profoundly affected women’s access to family planning services in Kenya. While prior studies have shown how the COVID-19 response created barriers to accessing family planning (FP) services, less is known about how the pandemic affected the normative influence that partners...
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| author | Rahma Hassan Amiya Bhatia Anja Zinke-Allmang Amy Shipow Concilia Ogolla Krittika Gorur Beniamino Cislaghi |
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| description | The COVID-19 response has profoundly affected women’s access to family planning services in Kenya. While prior studies have shown how the COVID-19 response created barriers to accessing family planning (FP) services, less is known about how the pandemic affected the normative influence that partners, peers, and health providers exert on women’s FP choices. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 16 women (aged 18–25 years), 10 men in partnerships with women, and 14 people in women’s social networks across 7 low-income wards in Nairobi, Kenya. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 response measures changed the contexts of normative influence on FP: financial insecurity, increased time at home with husbands or parents, and limited access to seek the support of health workers, friends, and other people in their social network affected how women negotiated FP access and use within their homes. Our study underscores the importance of ensuring FP is an essential service in a pandemic, and of developing health programs that change norms about FP to address the gendered burden of negotiating FP during COVID-19 and beyond. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7e800a46a6bc4d818114bf6cfd8b3bb92022-12-22T03:00:35ZengElsevierSSM: Qualitative Research in Health2667-32152022-12-012100031Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban NairobiRahma Hassan0Amiya Bhatia1Anja Zinke-Allmang2Amy Shipow3Concilia Ogolla4Krittika Gorur5Beniamino Cislaghi6University of Nairobi, Kenya; Corresponding author.London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Global Health and Development, UKLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Global Health and Development, UKBusara Center for Behavioral Economics, KenyaBusara Center for Behavioral Economics, KenyaBusara Center for Behavioral Economics, KenyaLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Global Health and Development, UKThe COVID-19 response has profoundly affected women’s access to family planning services in Kenya. While prior studies have shown how the COVID-19 response created barriers to accessing family planning (FP) services, less is known about how the pandemic affected the normative influence that partners, peers, and health providers exert on women’s FP choices. In this qualitative study, we interviewed 16 women (aged 18–25 years), 10 men in partnerships with women, and 14 people in women’s social networks across 7 low-income wards in Nairobi, Kenya. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 response measures changed the contexts of normative influence on FP: financial insecurity, increased time at home with husbands or parents, and limited access to seek the support of health workers, friends, and other people in their social network affected how women negotiated FP access and use within their homes. Our study underscores the importance of ensuring FP is an essential service in a pandemic, and of developing health programs that change norms about FP to address the gendered burden of negotiating FP during COVID-19 and beyond.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321521000317Family planningCOVID-19KenyaGenderSocial norms |
| spellingShingle | Rahma Hassan Amiya Bhatia Anja Zinke-Allmang Amy Shipow Concilia Ogolla Krittika Gorur Beniamino Cislaghi Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban Nairobi SSM: Qualitative Research in Health Family planning COVID-19 Kenya Gender Social norms |
| title | Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban Nairobi |
| title_full | Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban Nairobi |
| title_fullStr | Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban Nairobi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban Nairobi |
| title_short | Navigating family planning access during Covid-19: A qualitative study of young women’s access to information, support and health services in peri-urban Nairobi |
| title_sort | navigating family planning access during covid 19 a qualitative study of young women s access to information support and health services in peri urban nairobi |
| topic | Family planning COVID-19 Kenya Gender Social norms |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321521000317 |
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