Parental Knowledge, Willingness, and Attitude towards Contraceptive Usage among Their Unmarried Adolescents in Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria

Table 7

Unmarried adolescents’ sociodemographic factors associated with parental willingness for contraceptive usage.

Sociodemographic variables	Parental willingness to encourage contraceptive usage				Test statistics	value
	Yes (%)	No (%)	Maybe (%)	Total (%)
Gender
Male	27(34.6)	45(57.7)	6(7.7)	78(100.0)		0.831
Female	87(30.9)	171(60.6)	23(7.3)	282(100.0)
Age of respondent
25-40	102(32.6)	188(60.1)	27(7.5)	313(100.0)		0.748
41-56	10(25.0)	28(70.0)	2(5.0)	40(100.0)
≥57	2(28.6)	5(71.4)	0(0.0)	7(100.0)
Marital status
Married	100(33.7)	177(59.6)	25(8.4)	297(100.0)		0.123
Unmarried/single	10(9.5)	37(88.1)	1(2.4)	42(100.0)
Divorced	3(23.1)	7(53.4)	3(23.1)	13(100.0)
Widow	1(12.5)	7(87.5)	0(0.0)	8(100.0)
Occupation
Civil servant	102(31.0)	198(60.2)	29(8.8)	329(100.0)		0.374
Artisan	9(34.6)	17(65.4)	0(0.0)	26(100.0)
Farmer	3(60.0)	2(40.0)	0(0.0)	5(100.0)
Education qualification
Primary	6(18.7)	26(81.3)	0(0.0)	32(100.0)		0.001
Secondary	1(33.3)	0(0.0)	2(66.7)	3(100.0)
Tertiary	85(30.7)	167(60.3)	25(9.0)	277(100.0)
Others	22(46.8)	23(48.9)	2(4.3)	47(100.0)
Religion
Christianity	103(32.4)	186(58.5)	28(8.8)	318(100.0)		0.278
Muslim	4(33.3)	7(58.3)	1(8.3)	12(100.0)
Traditional religion	7(23.3)	23(76.7)	0(0.0)	30(100.0)
Ethnicity
Esan	110(32.0)	206(59.9)	28(8.1)	344(100.0)		0.791
Beni	2(22.2)	7(77.8)	0(0.0)	9(100.0)
Others	2(28.6)	4(57.1)	1(14.3)	7(100.0)
Duration of marriage
10-25	99(32.6)	174(57.2)	28(9.2)	304(100.0)		0.731
26-41	5(41.7)	7(58.3)	0(0.0)	12(100.0)
≥42	0(0.0)	2(100.0)	0(0.0)	2(100.0)

Tertiary (diploma (4.2%), nursing (5.0%), polytechnic (15.5%), BSc (38.5%), MSc (10.8%), PhD (3.1%)). Others (vocational studies (4.0%), never attended school (8.1%)). Others (Igbo (0.5%), Auchi (0.5%), Hausa (0.14%), Etsako (0.4%), Yoruba (0.36%)). Statistically significant. : chi-square test; †: Fisher’s exact test.