Adolescents' Intentions and Willingness for Contraceptive Use in Rural Ghana

Efforts made to improve the availability and access to adolescent sexual and reproductive health services have not yielded the expected results and the Kintampo Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS) area is no exception. This study seeks to explore the intentions and preferences for contraceptives among adolescents in rural Ghana and examines differences and determinants of intentions and preferences observed to make contributions towards meeting MDG 5b which is described as the most off-track of all MDGs. The source of data is a survey and the KHDSS database. The outcome variable is the intention and/or willingness of adolescents to use contraceptives and the explanatory variables are demographic and socio-economic factors. Descriptive and multivariate analysis were done using STATA 11.1. The expected findings are level of adolescents’ willingness for contraceptive use, most popular and reasons for not using contraceptives. This study will also show differences in the socio-demographic and economic sub-groups and determinants of the observations made