A Proposal for a Replicative Study

Although research has established the NORPLANT method as one of the most effective approaches to contraception, the method has not been widely adopted by women (Cullins & Garcia, 1997). The need for a safe and effective approach, however, to contraception continues to be great (Wildemeersch, Van Kets, Vrijens, Delbarge, Van Trappen, Temmerman, Depypere, & Thiery, (1997). Better information is required in relation to why women select the NORPLANT method and why the method is rejected, if the use of this effective approach to contraception is to be increased.

Darney, Atkinson, Tanner, MacPherson, Hellerstein, and Alvarado (1990) conducted a study in the late-1980s to develop information in relation to why women select the NORPLANT method and why the method is rejected. While the information developed by this study was valuable at the time it was reported, there are three problems that emerge when an attempt is made to apply the information in the contemporary period. First, the information developed was based on data that is now 10-to-12 years old. The extent to which the study findings remain relevant in the late-1990s is not known. Second, much of the data collected for the study was through the use of non-directional interview questionnaires. While there are valuable uses for this approach to data collection, the non-directional approach does not assure that data relevant to some k

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using contraception after the completion of the study. Of these women (the 86 percent majority), almost one-half indicated that they planned to use a second NORPLANT implant as the contraceptive method. Chetri, Bhatta, Amatya, Lama, Dunson, Spivey, McMahan, & Balogh (1996) concluded that the NORPLANT system is a safe and effective method of contraception. They concluded further that NORPLANT is an acceptable method of contraception among Nepalese women. Cushman, Davidson, Kalmuss, Heartwell, and Rulin (1996) documented the counseling experiences and beliefs about NORPLANT implants that were held by an ethnically diverse sample of low-income clinic patients in the United States. Approximately all implant acceptors, but only about one-half of those choosing other contraceptives, receive information about the NORPLANT system during clinic-based counseling. Exposure to group counseling and to a film regarding NORPLANT implants were found to be associated with high levels of knowledge among acceptors. Several important patterns were found in comparing the beliefs of patients choosing the NORPLANT system with those of patients choosing other methods of birth control. Substantial proportions of the latter group were found to adh
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