THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG KNOWLEDGE, PERCEIVED ACCESSIBILITY AND PRACTICE OF CONTRACEPTION OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENT FEMALES (ETHNIC VALUE SYSTEMS).
Contributors: Texas Woman's University.
Published: 1990
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.; Women's Studies.
Description: A descriptive survey was used to determine what relationships existed among contraceptive knowledge, perceived accessibility to contraceptive methods and contraceptive use within a randomly selected sample of 250 adolescent Mexican-American females. In their home environment, all subjects completed the investigator-adapted Contraceptive Knowledge Index (r =.88) and the investigator-designed Contraceptive Methods Access Index (r =.93) and Demographic Data Record. Analysis of data revealed significant relationships between contraceptive knowledge and perceived accessibility to contraceptive methods (r =.45; p =.0001) and between the combined influences of contraceptive knowledge and perceived accessibility to contraceptive methods and contraceptive use ($\chi\sp2$ = 81.31, df = 6; p = $\le$.05). Associations were significant between sexual experience (p =.0001), age (p =.002), education (p =.008), and religion (p =.004). Sexual experience had the highest predictive capacity for contraceptive use followed by perceived accessibility to contraceptive methods, age, religion, contraceptive knowledge, education and socioeconomic status.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-02, Section: B, page: 0748.

Thesis (PH.D.)--TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY, 1990.

School code: 0925.