Impact of Interpersonal Communication for Contraceptive Uses among Married Couples in Karachi
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Planned Parenthood, Interpersonal Communication, Contraceptive Usage, Health CommunicationAbstract
The growing Pakistan population is putting pressure on the country’s limited resources, which indicates that population control and family planning are serious issues. The government of Pakistan has taken various steps to address this, but in the end, it will be up to the married couples whose interpersonal communication, laced with knowledge about planned child-rearing, will lead government programs to fruition. In order to determine whether and to what extent there was a correlation, this study examined the effectiveness of interpersonal communication between married couples and Planned Parenthood. The results of the study concluded that Planned Parenthood is made possible by effective communication between married couples. Despite the significant efforts of state family planning initiatives to disseminate knowledge, promote birth control methods, and encourage the best spacing between children, there is still a clear need for couples to be given appropriate power, especially when it comes to making the first parenting decisions.
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