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Measurement of Social Norms Affecting Modern Contraceptive Use

A Literature Review

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ID14524264
AuthorsElizabeth Costenbader (0000-0002-5104-7672), Rachel Lenzi (0000-0002-4032-7177), R B Hershow (0000-0002-8492-3747), Kim Ashburn (0000-0002-4936-5073), Donna R McCarraher (0000-0002-9963-9706)
Year2017
Volume48
Issue4
Pages377-389
Publication date2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Family Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-3665 • E-ISSN: 1728-4465
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sifp.12040
PMID29165824
OpenAlexW2769661968
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited52

As a critical building block to developing social norms interventions to support healthy family planning and other reproductive health behaviors, we conducted a literature review to identify and evaluate social norm measures related to modern contraceptive use. Of 174 articles reviewed in full, only 17 studies met our criteria for inclusion. Across these articles, no single measure of norms was used in more than one study; failure to specify the boundaries of who was engaging in and influencing the behaviors of interest contributed to the variation. Most of the studies relied on cross‐sectional data, only included condom use as their contraceptive use outcome, used individual‐ or interpersonal‐level behavior change theories rather than social‐level theories, and assumed a reference group, all of which limit the quality of the norm measures. We make several recommendations to bring greater consistency and comparability to social norm measures

Comparability · Condom · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Interpersonal communication · Norm (philosophy) · Political science · Population · Psychological intervention · Research methodology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Mathematics · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works15
Citations per year2,5
Citation span2020 - 2025 (6)
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