scholarly journals Unmet need for family planning among women in rural Egypt

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragaa El-Masry ◽  
Noha Essam ◽  
Magda Ghoneim
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Past History ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: Although Egypt has a strong family planning program; the downward trend in the unmet need has been reversed recently. Thus the present study aimed to assess the magnitude of unmet need for family planning, its common reasons and the associated factors among women of reproductive age group.Methods: this is a community-based cross sectional household survey study conducted in Awish El-Hagar village, Mansoura, Egypt during the year 2015-2016. Using an interviewer questionnaire; 394 rural women in childbearing period were surveyed via a systematic random sampling technique with the help of the outreach community health workers affiliated to Awish El-Hagar family medicine center.Results: The overall prevalence rates of unmet need for family planning and contraceptive use were 11.2% and 69.5% respectively, while the total demand for family planning was 80.7%. Infrequent sex (27.3%), fear from the side effects (25%) and husband opposition (15.9%) were the most frequent reasons for non-use of family planning methods among unmet need women. Logistic regressions explored that risk factors for unmet need women were having husband disapproved family planning, having only girls, perception that having >3 children to be ideal, working, having husband with the main family planning decision maker, with no past history of unintended pregnancy and having only boys.Conclusions: A considerable proportion of Egyptian women still have an unmet need for family planning that need to be addressed by more effective family planning and health education programs together with improving counseling strategies and enforcing the role of outreach workers.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with Unmet Need for Family Planning among Married Reproductive Age Women in Toke Kutaye District, Oromia, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Abebe Tadesse G/Meskel ◽  
Habtamu Oljira Desta ◽  
Elias Teferi Bala
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Reproductive Age Women ◽  
Living Children

Background. It is estimated that more than 142 million married women in developing countries have an unmet need for family planning. This study is aimed at identifying factors associated with the unmet need of family planning among married women of reproductive age in Toke Kutaye district, Ethiopia in 2019. Methods. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Toke Kutaye district from March 1–30, 2019. A systematic random sampling technique was used to select 494 reproductive-age women who were married during data collection. Data were collected using a pretested structured questionnaire. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to assess factors associated with the unmet need of family planning at 95% CI with a p value of ≤ 0.05. Result. The prevalence of unmet need for family planning in the Toke Kutaye district was 23.1% [95% CI (19.2-26.7)], with 15.2% for spacing and 7.9% for limiting. Women’s education [AOR, 3.64, 95% CI: 1.43-9.25], number of living children [AOR, 2.63, 95% CI: 1.37-5.05], husband disapproval of family planning [AOR, 3.68, 95% CI: 2.20-6.16], and discussion with healthcare providers on family planning [AOR, 0.20, 95% CI: 0.13-0.37] were significantly associated with unmet need for family planning. Conclusion. The prevalence of unmet need for family planning was high. Therefore, program managers, partners, and health workers should work to address the gaps in maternal education, the number of living children, partner disapproval of family planning, and discussion on family planning issues through enhancing female education, awareness on family planning, and male involvement in family planning services.

scholarly journals IMPROVING DESIGN AND DELIVERY OF FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES TO MEET THE UNMET NEED FOR CONTRACEPTION IN QUETTA BALOCHISTAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
Naiha Sagheer ◽  
Saleem Ullah ◽  
Noureen Latif ◽  
Tabinda Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Modern Contraceptive ◽  
Contraceptive Methods ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: Approximeately 24 percent of married women of reproductive age in Pakistan would like to adopt family planning, but are unable to avail the means to practice contraception. This study has been conducted to find out frequency and perception about family planning practices and further to explore and analyze the causes of failure to meet the demand for contraception. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on married females of reproductive age group and married males while visiting the outpatient departments of two hospitals of Quetta from January to September 2017. They were interviewed by researchers through a structured, reliable and pretested questionnaire. The data obtained and analyzed by using SPSS 21 version. Results: 76% of participants were in favour of practicing yet only 33.8% had actually practiced it sometime during their reproductive years. The major reasons for not using family planning were the apprehension of harmful effects of contraceptive methods (52.6%), non-supportive partner (30%), unavailability of services (11.4%) and religious constraints (6%). The mass media was the main source of motivational information(69%) followed by Lady health workers. Conclusion: The current prevalence of family planning is still not at the expected level, There is a dire need of the continued use of mass media and services of community health workers to raise awareness. The practice of modern contraceptive methods can be enhanced by provision of client-centered quality services.. An increase in the number of family planning centers along with an efficient functioning, monitoring, and evaluation are also required to address unmet needs of the community near their doorstep.

scholarly journals Unmet Need for Family Planning among Urban and Rural Married Women in Yangon Region, Myanmar—a Cross-Sectional Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myint Myint Wai ◽  
Espen Bjertness ◽  
Hein Stigum ◽  
Thein Thein Htay ◽  
Tippawan Liabsuetrakul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
Demographic And Health Surveys ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Unintended Pregnancies

Despite increasing contraceptive use and prevalence, many women who want to avoid or delay pregnancy are not using contraceptives. This results in unintended pregnancies, which increases the risk of unsafe abortions. This study aimed to explore the extent of the unmet need for family planning (FP) among urban and rural married women in Myanmar and their demand for and satisfaction with FP. A cross-sectional survey using adapted Demographic and Health surveys questions was conducted in south and north Yangon from September 2016 to November 2016. A total of 1100 currently married women of 18–49 years participated. The contraceptive prevalence was 67.2% in total, 63% urban, and 70% rural. About 19.4% (95% CI: 16.7%–22.4%) of the studied women had an unmet need for FP, significantly higher in urban than rural women (22.6% versus 16.6%). Rural women also showed significant lesser odds (adjusted OR: 0.63; 95% CI: 0.461–0.849) of unmet need than the urban counterparts. About 86% of the women had demand for contraception and 77% of them satisfied their demand. The study population revealed a fairly good contraceptive coverage; however, a considerable proportion of women had an unmet need for FP, especially the urban women. The demand for contraception is increasing, and contraceptive services need to expand coverage to marginalized groups in order to reduce the risk of unsafe abortions.

scholarly journals AWARENESS AND UTILIZATION OF FAMILY PLANNING COMMODITIES IN A RURAL COMMUNITY OF NORTH WEST NIGERIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raji MO ◽  
Oche MO ◽  
Kaoje AU ◽  
Raji HO ◽  
Ango JT
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
North West

Background: Objectives: Methods: Nigeria, with a contraceptive prevalence of 15% is characterized by high fertility (5.7 births per women), rapid population growth (2.8%) and has rural women on the average having 2 children more than urban women.This study aimed to assess the awareness and utilization of family planning commodities in a rural community of northern Nigeria.This was a community based, descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in January 2013 as part of community diagnosis of Kware Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto state. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select study respondents. All the 100 women of reproductive age group living in the settlement participated in the study. A set of semi structured interviewer administered questionnaire, containing 3 sections was used to obtain information on respondents' socio-demographic characteristics, awareness of family planning and practice of family planning.Results: Conclusion: Key words: Majority (69.1%) of the respondents had ever heard of family planning

scholarly journals Unmet Need of Family Planning Among Rural Women in Bangladesh

1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
SK Ferdousi ◽  
MA Jabbar ◽  
SR Hoque ◽  
SR Karim ◽  
AR Mahmood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Contraceptive Prevalence ◽  
Family Planning Methods

Objective: This study aims to find out the unmet need of family planning among the rural women. To explore the obstacles to use family planning methods and to estimate the prevalence of contraceptive use. Study design: Cross-sectional type of descriptive study. Settings: The study was conducted at Sreepur upazila under Gazipur district. Subjects: All the married women of reproductive age, residing in a selected village of Sreepur upazila, were selected as the study subject. Results: The study revealed that unmet need was (22.4%). Most of the respondents (72.1%) were using contraceptive methods. Among those who used contraceptives, OCP was the most commonly used method (61.7%). About 28% were not using any method. The main reason was fear of side effects (46.1%). Conclusion: The study concluded that a nationwide contraceptive prevalence study may be carried out to explore the problem in detail. Key words: Unmet need; family planning; contraceptive prevalence rate. DOI: 10.3329/jdmc.v19i1.6244 J Dhaka Med Coll. 2010; 19(1) : 11-15.

scholarly journals Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Women of Reproductive Age in Plateau State Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amina Mohammed ◽  
Esther Awazzi Envuladu ◽  
Elizabeth Onyi Okoh ◽  
Ize Anuwolapo Osagie ◽  
Mustapha Abdulsalaam Danimoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Plateau State ◽  
Study Participants

Family planning provides individuals and couples the ability to adequately space each pregnancy. Contraceptive uptake is still low in developing countries. This study aims to determine the proportion of women with unmet need for family planning in plateau State. Methods and materials: This was a cross sectional study, employing quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 300 study participants across the three senatorial zones in Plateau State. A semi structured interviewer administered questionnaire was used to obtain information from study participants while a Focussed Group Discussion (FGD) guide was used to conduct FGDs among women. Data was analysed using SPSS version 23. Results: The mean age of respondents was 25.4 years. The proportion of women currently using any form of contraceptive was 36%. Fifty-six percent of the respondents had unmet need for family planning. Educational status and parity were statistically significantly associated with having unmet need for family planning. In the FDGs most women of lower parity narrated that they would like to limit and space their pregnancies but were not using family planning commodities for fear of infertility, back ache, headache and complication such as convulsion in pregnancy. Conclusion: The use of family planning commodities is low and unmet need for family planning high in Plateau State. Interventions such as health education targeting mothers may reduce the proportion of women with unmet need for family planning. This will enable women adequately space and limit their pregnancies and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. Key words: family planning, unmet need, limiting pregnancy, spacing pregnancy.  

scholarly journals Determinants of modern contraceptive preference among mothers (15-49 years) in central zone, Tigray region, Ethiopia; qualitative study finding

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Merhawi Gebremedhin ◽  
Ayele Belachew ◽  
Demeke Desta
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
English Language ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Central Zone ◽  
Study Finding ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Modern Contraceptive ◽  
Cross Sectional

Contraceptive method choice is a fundamental indicator of quality of care in a family planning program. Contraceptive choice is one component of quality in family planning and offering minimum of three modern methods of contraceptives is a critical indicator. One-third of developing countries have many skewed method mixes, which is a risky for discontinuation, contraceptive dissatisfaction and unintended pregnancy. In Ethiopia, the prevalence of contraceptive is highly skewed, 76% for injectable. Therefore, the purpose of qualitative study was to assess determinants of modern contraceptive preference among reproductive age (15-49 years) in Central Zone of Tigray.Methodology: the study was conducted in the central zone of Tigray and community, and facility based qualitative cross-sectional study was applied. Six focus group discussion entails of reproductive age mothers and 15 In-depth Interview with health workers constitutes the sample. Data was first transcribed and then translated into English language. Open code software was applied to analyze data and data was coded segment by segment then categorized using thematic analysis to give meaning.Result: community’s awareness and acceptance to use modern contraceptives have improved from time to time. Contraceptive preference is determined by community acceptance, health care system problem, individual context and socio-cultural problem. For majority of respondents, preference to long acting contraceptive is mainly influenced by husband.Conclusion: currently, women are preferring short-acting contraceptive preferably injectable than long acting.Implanon is preferred next to injectable. A strong information, education and communication that address all portions of the population and able to change the community’s attitude should do at the grass root level.

scholarly journals Unmet needs for family planning in Sunsari, eastern Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
IS Paudel ◽  
SS Budhathoki
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Women Of Reproductive Age ◽  
Cross Sectional

Introduction: The unmet need for family planning is a very useful tool in measuring and predicting the contraceptive needs of a population. Seventeen percent of all married women would prefer to avoid pregnancy but are not using any form of family planning. In less developed countries, about one forth of pregnancies is unintended. Objective: To determine the level of unmet need for family planning and evaluate the factors that influences the unmet needs in Married Women of Reproductive Age (MRWA). Methods: A cross-sectional study of 410 women attending the immunization clinic of B.P.Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, a teaching hospital in Dharan was carried out over 3 months. Results: MRWA had 22%, 15% and 8% unmet needs for family planning, spacing and limiting births respectively. Health concerns and side effects (30.5%), husband and family opposition (14%), uncertainty about child bearing (12.2%) and inconvenience (10%) were among the major constraints to the use of contraception. Unmet need has significant association between parity & education. Age and family type had no significant effect on unmet needs. Conclusion: In spite of high level of awareness about family planning method, a significant level of unmet need exists among women of reproductive age. Keywords: unmet needs; family planning; married women of reproductive age; MRWA DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hren.v9i3.5581   HR 2011; 9(3): 148-151

scholarly journals The Analysis of Factors Affecting Unmet Need in Fertile Age Women in Sumberjambe District, Sumbersari, and Kaliwates

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 700-703
Author(s):  
Latifah Hanum ◽  
Ancah Caesarina Marchianti ◽  
Ristya Widi Endah Yani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Predisposing Factor ◽  
Cross Sectional

Unmet need family planning is a need for contraception that is not met. Fertile age women are said to be unmet need family planning if they wish to delay pregnancy or to terminate pregnancy for the next two years but not to use contraceptives. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of predisposing factors, enabling factors, and reinforcing factors in fertile couple women in Sumberjambe, Sumbersari and Kaliwates. The research design used was observational analytic with cross sectional research design. Samples taken in this study were 382 women of fertile couples age. The sampling technique used was multistage random sampling technique. Data anaysis used logistic regression. The results showed that there was influence of predisposing factor, enabling factor and reinforcing factor to contraception that was not fulfilled in fertile age women of knowledge with value of (p = 0.000), attitude with value of (p = 0.000), access service with value of (p = 0.000), quality of service with value of (p = 0.002), husband support with value of (p = 0.000), family panning officer support with value of (p = 0.000), and IEC treatment with value of (p = 0.000). Keywords: knowledge; attitude; social culture; service access; quality of service

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