Effects of Cashless Policy on Reproductive Activity among Married Women in Urban Areas of South-South Nigeria

Abstract

Availability of physical cash is a vehicle for reproductive activity because its availability and accessibility determines reproductive activity in terms of conception among married couples. Stable economic is a panacea for reproductive activity to take place. The study is aim to investigate the Effects of Cashless Policy on Reproductive Activity among Married Women in Urban Areas of South-South Nigeria. The study involves 260 married women between 18 to 37 years of age. The study was a cross sectional study and questionnaires were given to participants after seeking their consent to fill independently and return it to the researcher. The study lasted for a period of 4 months. The study revealed that 82.3% of the participants did not have urge to sex during the period of Cashless policy while 17.7 do and 69.2% of the participants do not want to be pregnant during the season. 86.6% of the participants do not use protective devise during sex for several reasons. 95.4% have sex during the policy’s season and 98.5% of the participants were pregnant.81.5% said the pregnancy was not timely. 82.3% of the participants terminates their pregnancy and 82.3% used herbal medicine, 17.7% used tablets to terminate their pregnancy.94.6% have complications from terminating the pregnancy.69.2% of the participants said that, the policy brought hardship.