ArticleBMJ open2024
Understanding the association between family planning and fertility reduction in Southeast Asia: a scoping review.
Article in BMJ open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Social determinants of low fertility in Asia: a comparative review of trends in East, Southeast and South Asia.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Review
- The shifting burden of gastrointestinal and liver diseases in Southeast Asia and effective control strategies.Asian biomedicine : research, reviews and news · 2025Article
- Cultural contexts differentially shape parents' loneliness and wellbeing during the empty nest period.Communications psychology · 2024Review
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Abstract
objectivesWe aimed to explore and understand the extent and type of evidence on fertility reduction and its association with family planning (FP) in Southeast Asia.
designScoping review, following the methodological principles developed by Arksey and O'Malley and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines for reporting. DATA SOURCE: We searched PubMed/MEDLINE, ProQuest, EBSCO, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar and reference lists of relevant articles between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2022. Only open-access articles in English were considered. STUDY SELECTION: For inclusion, observational studies were selected for eligibility based on the original articles investigating the uptake of FP on women aged 15-49 years and its association with fertility decline in Southeast Asian (SEA) countries. DATA EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS: Two reviewers screened the records independently for eligibility and extracted all data. The specific details of the studies, including data on the authors, year of publication, setting, study design, aims/objectives of the study, specific intervention, outcomes and main findings, were reported.
resultsWe retrieved 615 articles and retained 12 articles included in the analysis. Of these, 11 were quantitative studies and 1 was qualitative study. The frequently reported strategy of FP was the use of contraception. FP not only allows women to control their birth by spacing and limiting their pregnancies but also delay their first childbirth by using contraceptive methods.
conclusionOur review suggests that the FP programmes aiming at reducing fertility should have a specific focus on improving the uptake and continuation of FP services.
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