Features of approaches of family planning according to socio-cultural level and national traditions among the female population

The article represents the study whose aim was to identify some aspects directly or indirectly affecting the lack of natural increase of the population in the Russian Federation. The analysis of the somewhat not great practical material was performed primarily on the basis of data from the residents of Tomsk oblast belonging to different socio-cultural strata. We analyzed the following indicators: the marital status; the educational level; interconnection between the level of education and contraceptive use among different groups according to the study; the preferable age, in the opinion of the experiment's participants, for giving birth to the first-born; minimally needed economic benefits for the birth of their first child; correlation of prophylactic visits to the obstetrician-gynecologists with the level of education; the need to have their own living space for procreation. A composite analysis of questionnaires delivered to the respondents both in electronic and printed forms has been carried out. The calculation was performed in the "STATISTIKA 10" software program, and, in order to evaluate statistical differences, Pearson's chi-squared test was used as a criterion of agreement. The reliability level was not less than 95 percent. In the course of the research, it was found out that 88 percent of the female participants in the experiment use contraception. Moreover, a significant part of the polled admitted to conscientiously postponing the birth of the firstborn until the late reproductive period, which, undoubtedly, leads to a reduction in the natural growth of the population. The investigation resulted in obtaining data about statistically significant correlation between prophylactic visits to the obstetrician-gynecologists and the level of education of the participants in the experiment (p = 0,05). No reliable data concerning the dependence of the kinds of contraceptives on the level of education have been obtained. The authors also come to the conclusion that the family form is not exclusively nuclear. It includes two more generations, as well as, brothers and sisters, which results in the formation of circles of socio-cultural interactions inside small groups that have their own values, stereotypes of behavior and actions, and their own social state. These aspects, which determine certain approaches to family planning, open new prospects for the continuation of this research.

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