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Background: Contraception can be defined as all temporary or permanent measures designed to prevent pregnancy. Bilateral tubal ligation is a surgical and permanent form of contraception offered to women who completed their family size or for limitation of family size due to medical condition. The practices of bilateral tubal ligation is limited in Sub-Saharan African countries, Nigeria inclusive because of great desire for a large family size, cultural and religious factors, misunderstanding and fear of the procedure. The aim of the study was to determine the perception and acceptability of bilateral tubal ligation as a form of contraception among women attending Antenatal clinic at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital Sokoto.Methods: This was a cross sectional study conducted among women attending antenatal clinic between 1st of May to 31st of July, 2018. The information was obtained using a structured questionnaire to obtain the respondent’s socio-demographic characteristics, questions on perception and acceptability of bilateral tubal ligation. Data analysis was done with statistical package for social sciences version 22 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA).Results: The study revealed that 73% of the respondents were aware of bilateral tubal ligation, but only 44% of them have good perception towards it. Majority of the respondents (63.8%) reject BTL for contraception. Most of their reasons were cultural believe (33.3%), regret (31.6%), religious believe (26.6%) and fear of surgery (8.5%).Conclusions: There was poor perception and low acceptability toward bilateral tubal ligation among the study population, mostly due to cultural and religious believes, as well as fear of regret, despite awareness of BTL among majority of the respondents.
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ObjectiveTo compare children's resilience and peer relationship in divorced and complete family,and explore the moderating effect of psychological resilience between family structure and peer relationship.Methods208 children from divorced family and 465 children from complete family were surveyed.Results(1)There were significant differences in children's resilience(divorced family (3.58±0.73),complete family(3.83±0.59),t=-2.765,P=0.006) and peer relationship(divorced family (3.47±0.72),complete family(3.73±0.59),t=-2.069,P=0.042) between complete and divorced family.(2) Family structure had remarkable negative correlation with resilience and peer relationship(r1=-0.19,r2=-0.20),and resilience had positive correlation with peer relationship(r=0.43).(3)The moderating effect of resilience between family structure and peer relationship was significant(β=0.641,P<0.05).ConclusionParent divorce has negative influence on children's resilience and peer relationship.Furthermore,the relationship of family structure and peer relationship is mediated by resilience.The negative influence of parent divorce on peer relationship is not significant among children with high resilience,while it is significant on children with low resilience.