Culture and Social Norms: Development and Application of a Model for Culturally Contextualized Communication Measurement (MC3M)

RW Liu, MK Lapinski, JM Kerr, J Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Studies of social norms are common in the communication literature and are increasingly
focused on cultural dynamics: studying co-cultural groups within national boundaries or …

Urban family planning in low-and middle-income countries: a critical scoping review

J Duminy, J Cleland, T Harpham… - Frontiers in Global …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Health agendas for low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) should embrace and afford
greater priority to urban family planning to help achieve a number of the global Sustainable …

An argument for ecological research and intervention in health communication

MB Moran, LB Frank, N Zhao, C Gonzalez… - Journal of health …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Ecological approaches to understanding and changing health behavior are becoming
increasingly common (Gehlert et al., 2007; Mabry, Olster, Morgan, & Abrams, 2008). Such …

Exploring readiness for birth control in improving women health status: Factors influencing the adoption of modern contraceptives methods for family planning …

AM Shah, KY Lee, J Nisa Mir - International Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Pakistan is the world's sixth most populated country, with a population of
approximately 208 million people. Despite this, just 25% of legitimate couples say they have …

Perceived norms, personal agency, and postpartum family planning intentions among first-time mothers age 15–24 years in Kinshasa: A cross-sectional analysis

AJ Gage, FE Wood, PZ Akilimali - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Unintended pregnancy is an important global health problem and frequently occurs during
the immediate postpartum period. However, few studies have examined postpartum family …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of normative perceptions on the uptake of the COVID-19 TraceTogether digital contact tracing system: Cross-sectional study

JK Lee, L Lin, H Kang - JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2021 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background In 2020, the Singapore government rolled out the TraceTogether program, a
digital system to facilitate contact tracing efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This …

Perceptions of peer contraceptive use and its influence on contraceptive method use and choice among young women and men in Kenya: a quantitative cross …

LM Calhoun, A Mirzoyants, S Thuku, L Benova… - Reproductive health, 2022 - Springer
Background Prior research has established that an individual's social environment may
influence his or her reproductive behaviors, yet less is known about peer influence on …

Associations between Contraceptive Decision‐Making and Marital Contraceptive Communication and use in Rural Maharashtra, India

M Nazarbegian, S Averbach, NE Johns… - Studies in family …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Women's contraceptive decision‐making control is crucial for reproductive autonomy, but
research largely relies on the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) measure which asks …

Where do perceived norms supporting child corporal punishment come from? A study of low-income parents

HT Duong, A Sirohi - Health Communication, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Although the influence of perceived norms on health behavior has been well researched,
the sources of normative perceptions remain understudied. Drawing on the theory of …

Condom use at last sex by young men in Ethiopia: the effect of descriptive and injunctive norms

A Jain, E Tobey, H Ismail, A Erulkar - Reproductive Health, 2018 - Springer
Background Condoms are an important prevention method in the transmission of HIV and
sexually transmitted infections as well as unintended pregnancy. Individual-level factors …