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    Personal and Socio-cultural Factors as Determinants of Family Planning Adoption Among Female Secondary School Teachers in Oyo Zone, Oyo State
    (Lead City University, 2022-12) Desola Dorcas AKPAN
    This research investigated the personal and socio-cultural factors as determinant of family planning adoption among female secondary school teachers in Oyo Zone, Oyo State. Developing countries are characterized by rapid population growth which is usually due to high fertility, high birth rates, and low contraceptive prevalence rate as observed in Oyo communities, even among teachers in public schools who are the supposed elites. A total number of two hundred and ten (210) female teachers were randomly selected from 1,277 teachers in registered secondary schools in Oyo Zone to test the level of family planning adoption among them and also test the hypotheses of personal and socio-cultural determinants of family planning adoption. A self-structured questionnaire was used to gather information from respondents and data collected were analyzed with the use of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 19. The data collected were subjected to Cronbach Alpha to determine the reliability coefficient at 0.85 and linear combination of personal factors was tested significant on adoption of family planning among female secondary school teachers in Oyo Zone (F(2,197)=422.633, p<0.05) with multiple regression of R=0.901 and multiple R-square of 0.811. The result also reveals that adjusted R2=0.809; indicating that about 80.9% of variance was accounted for by the independent variable. Likewise, fear of health hazard (ß=0.379, t=6.272, p<0.05) and desire for more children (ß=0.554, t=9.181, p<0.05) were independently tested significant on adoption of family planning among female secondary school teachers. it was found that the linear combination of social factors (religion, spousal disposition and media influence) is significant on adoption of family planning among female secondary school teachers in Oyo Zone (F(3,196)=493.272, p<0.05).It is recommended that government, non-governmental organizations and other relevant agencies should organize an effective health education programme on issues surrounding family planning, specifically on its adoption among female teachers. Keywords: Family Planning, Spousal Disposition, Birth Control, Religion, Family Planning Techniques. Word count: 299