Waqas Hameed|Syed Khurram Azmat|Moazzam Ali|Muhammad Ishaque Sheikh|Ghazunfer Abbas|Marleen Temmerman|Bilal Iqbal Avan
Women's Empowerment and Contraceptive Use: The Role of Independent versus Couples' Decision-Making, from a Lower Middle Income Country Perspective
Marie Stopes Society|Marie Stopes Society|World Health Organization|Marie Stopes Society|Marie Stopes Society|World Health Organization|London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
introduction little available evidence associations various dimensions womens empowerment contraceptive use examined associations mediated womens socioeconomic demographic statuses assessed phenomena pakistan using structuredframework approach methods analyzed data 2133 women either using form contraceptive living unmet need contraception survey conducted may june 2012 married women reproductive age 1549 years three districts punjab dimensions empowerment categorized broadly economic decisionmaking household decisionmaking womens mobility two measures created dimension overall empowerment womens independent decisions taken jointly couples contraceptive use categorized either femaleonly couple methods basis whether method requires awareness support cooperation husband multinomial regression used means odds ratios assess associations empowerment dimensions femaleonly couple contraceptive methods results overall women tend get higher decisionmaking power increased age higher literacy greater number children household superior socioeconomic status measures couples decisionmaking overall empowerment dimension showed positive associations couple methods well femaleonly methods exception measure economic empowerment associated couple method conclusion couples joint decisionmaking stronger determinant use contraceptive methods womenonly decisionmaking case contribution womens sociodemographic economic statuses effort needs made educate women husbands equally particular focus highly effective contraceptive methods