This end line survey dataset on rural behavior change impact survey (BCIS) in six regions of Ethiopia was done by DKT Ethiopia conducted in May 2015. The aim of this survey was to examine the level of contraceptive use and its determinants among women and men 15-49 years old and measure any change associated with the RSM/ Lekie intervention. The result of this end-line survey revealed the following issues. 

1. Thirty-seven percent of women and 46% of men have seen Lekie's image/logo somewhere. Among those who reported seeing the logo, the vast majority of them (89% of women and 95% of men) were able to give a generally accurate description of the message represented by the logo. About 26% of women and 32% of men had seen/heard Lekie messages in the last 12 months. The most frequently cited sources of information about Lekie were posters, clinic/health facility wall paint, billboards, and large group announcers at market towns.
2. About a tenth of the women and men were exposed to Lekie's message from a single source, 17.4% of women and 21.2% of men were exposed to Lekie from two (2) or more sources and roughly 10% were exposed through three (3) or more sources. Just 18.4% of women and 23.6% of men had ever seen market town activities on FP such as a video show, large group event, or other activities. About 11% of women and 12.5% of men had ever attended market town discussions either in a large group, small group,

   ---

   or individual discussions. Among those who attended market town discussions, nearly 39% of both sexes reported that they had attended the discussions only once. On the other hand, 32.4% and 23.1%, respectively, of these women and men attended three (3) or more market town discussions in the previous two (2) years. Exposure to Lekie radio can be considered notably low. Only 3.2% of women and 6.6% of men have ever listened to the Lekie radio drama.
3. Awareness of FP was nearly universal (97-100%) for women and men exposed to Lekie while this was significantly lower (85-90%) among non-exposed women and men. The knowledge gap between those who were exposed and not exposed to Lekie ranged from 6-23% for different FP methods. The gap was wider for long-acting methods. Nevertheless, both exposed and unexposed women and men, in general, had limited awareness of IUCD, male and female sterilization, and emergency contraceptives (EC).
4. The contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) was 33.9% at the end line, slightly higher than the 32.2% documented for the same at baseline. Simply looking at the overall trend in contraceptive use between baseline and end-line masks the likely added value of Lekie. A closer look at end-line data, stratified by exposure to Lekie, suggests that those women who had any exposure to Lekie exhibited a significantly higher contraceptive prevalence rate at 44% compared to the 32.5% CPR documented at baseline.
5. Lekie appeared to have significantly higher contraceptive use compared to the non-exposed. Women who were exposed to FP information in market towns were twice as likely as those who were not exposed to the intervention to practice contraceptives. Likewise, the odds of using contraceptives increased by nearly twice among women who attended discussions in market towns compared to those who did not. Access to other information sources on FP, region, education, religion, and the number of children ever born as significant and independent predictors of contraceptive use in the target population. Among non-contraceptive users,41% intend to use FP in the next 12 months. Compared to the non-exposed, women who were exposed to Lekie were found to be significantly more likely to intend to use FP in the next 12 months. Baseline-end line comparison of perceived availability perceived social norms, and social support revealed significant positive trends in all indicators. For men, perceived availability increased 11% from the baseline mean value of 3.7 to 4.1 at the end line. Perceived social norms increased by 12% (from 3.2 to 3.6) and perceived social support by 14% (from 2.8 to 3.2) during the period.
6. Regarding Psychosocial determinants of family planning; A fairly high favorable attitude and self-efficacy and a modest level of outcome expectations in relation to FP have been exhibited among the female and male respondents at the end-line. Women also saw some level of control by their husbands in their decision to practice FP. On the other hand, men appeared to demonstrate a fairly good level of favorable attitude and outcome expectations in relation to FP. For women, perceived self-efficacy increased by 15% (from 3.4 to 3.9), perceived attitude by 8% (from 3.8 to 4.1), and perceived control by 10% (from 3.1 to 3.4) between baseline and end-line. Similar to women, perceived self-efficacy increased by 11% (from 3.6 to 4) and perceived attitude by 12% (from 3.3 to 3.7) for men over the same period.

• Behavior Change
• Impact Survey
• Ethiopia

no

This end-line survey data set on rural behavior change impact survey (BCIS) in six regions namely; (Amhara, Oromia, south national nationality region, Afar, Somali, and Tigray) of Ethiopia was done by DKT Ethiopia conducted in May 2015. The survey employed multi-stage cluster sampling and interviewed 1,632 married women and 864 currently married men 15-49 years old in 24 woredas and 96 enumeration areas. This survey has assessed the awareness and knowledge of FP, contraceptive prevalence rate, method mix, future intention to use FP, perceived availability of FP information and services, perceived social norms, social supports, attitudes, perceived self-efficacy, perceived control, and outcome expectations. Generally; the aim of this end-line survey is to examine the level of contraceptive use and its determinants among women and men 15-49 years old and measure any change associated with the RSM/Lekie intervention.

Copy url