scholarly journals CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE RATE, UNMET NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE GROUP

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Khola Noreen ◽  
Kausar Aftab Khan ◽  
Naeem Khan ◽  
Shahzad Ali Khan ◽  
Nadia Khalid

Background: Family planning includes knowledge, services, attitude, policies and practices which enable individuals to decide whether they want to have child and allow them to avoid unwanted pregnancy. Pakistan with population of 195.390 million with estimated population growth rate as 1.89 is the sixth most populous country in the world. Our objectives were to assess the total demand of family planning, contraceptive prevalence rate, unmet need for family planning and factors associated with unmet need of family planning among women of reproductive age group. Methods: We conducted this cross-sectional study on 355 females of reproductive age attending the out-patient department as patient or attendant. Data were collected using structured questionnaire after the participants' verbal consent. Results: The prevalence of unmet need was 34%. The proportion of unmet need for spacing was 63.6% and for limiters it was found to be 36.3%. Contraceptive prevalence rate was 57%. Total demand for family planning was 92.1%.Almost all study participant had knowledge regarding at least one method of contraception. Unmet need of family planning was found to be significantly associated with age and education status of women. High unmet need was there in women with low education status (p=0.047) and older age group (p=0.003). Main reasons for not using contraceptive was family opposition both family and husband (66.9), and fear of side effects (17.3%). Conclusion: More than one third females had unmet need which strongly points towards the strong influence of various socio demographic factors contributing towards the unmet need.

Author(s):  
Anita Thakur ◽  
Anmol K. Gupta ◽  
Tripti Chauhan ◽  
Nidhi Chauhan

Background: The utilization of family planning services has improved over the decade, but still the SDG’s health target to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services is yet to be achieved.Methods: A cross-sectional study was undertaken in the rural field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, from September to December 2019, with sample size of 316. The eligible participants were administered a predesigned, pretested, semi-structured and anonymous interview schedule after taking consent.Results: The mean age of the participants was 30.2±6.1 years. The modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) was found to be 67.7% among women of reproductive age group 15-49 years. Male condom 36%, followed by female sterilization 30% were the most common methods preferred.Conclusions: Besides male condoms and female sterilisation, other methods of contraception were adopted by meagre number of women. Though, the unmet need for family planning was lesser in this study, still, efforts are needed to plunge it, for ameliorating the contraceptive prevalence rate. Also, the availability of basket of contraceptive choices in government sector need sheer assiduity.


Author(s):  
Nidhi Chauhan ◽  
Saurabh Rattan

Background: The utilization of family planning services has improved over the decade, but still the SDG’s health target to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services is yet to be achieved, unmet need being one of the  imperative component.Methods: A cross-sectional study was undertaken in the rural field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, from July 2018 to June 2019. Total sample size calculated was 316. Random sampling was used to select eligible couple to whom a predesigned, pretested, semi-structured and anonymous interview schedule was administered after taking consent.Results: The mean age of the participants was 30.2±6.1 years. The modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) was found to be 67.7% among women of reproductive age group (15-49 years). Male condom (36%), followed by female sterilisation (30%) were the most common methods preferred. Unmet need of family planning was found to be 10.4%.Conclusions: Besides male condoms and female sterilisation, other methods of contraception were adopted by meagre number of women. Though, the unmet need for family planning was lesser in this study, still, efforts are needed to plunge it, for ameliorating the contraceptive prevalence rate. Also, the availability of basket of contraceptive choices in government sector need sheer assiduity.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matewos Wotango Wonago ◽  
Desalegn Tsegaw Hibstu

Abstract Back Ground: The Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey, report indicates that high level with slight decrement of unmet need for family planning among married women that is, 37%, 25%, and 22% in 2000, 2011 and 2016 respectively. One of the consequences of unmet need is unwanted pregnancy with its serious squeal of induced abortion, and ultimately results in high maternal morbidity and mortality. The risk would increase in developing countries considerably (10). Therefore, this study focused on assessing magnitude of unmet need for FP and associated factors among married women of reproductive age group in Shebedino district, Sidama Zone, South Ethiopia, 2019.Methods: Community-based cross-sectional study was conducted from April 12 to 28, 2019. Data on married reproductive age groups women were collected using a pre-tested and interviewer administered structured questionnaire from 447 women using systematic random sampling technique. The data were entered using Epi Data version 3.1 and then exported in to SPSS version 20.0 Software for analysis. The result of bi-variable and multi-variable was reported by Adjusted Odd Ratio with 95% confidence. Result: A total of 447 married reproductive age group (15-49 years) women were included in the study with 100 % response rate. Fifty Six (12.5%) 95% CI: 9.5%-15.5%) women had unmet need for family planning [42 (9.4%) for spacing and 14 (3.1%) for limiting]. Age of the respondents [AOR= 6.02, CI: 2.73, 13.27], Age at first marriage [AOR= 9.3, CI: 1.9, 45.42], birth interval, [AOR= 2.9, CI, 1.3, 6.3], Number of alive children, [AOR= 9.3, CI: 1.9, 45.42], and Age at first start to use family planning to control birth (AOR= 3.69, CI: 1.44, 9.45) were identified as a positively associated factors.Conclusion: The level of unmet need for family planning in this study (12.5%) was lower than both the national (22%) and South Regional State (21%). Thus, spacing among births for at least two or more years, enforcing the law on minimum age for the first marriage, involvement of men in shaping reproductive preferences, reducing early marriage and participating relevant stakeholders to minimize mistimed and unwanted pregnancies and unmet need for family planning are recommended.


2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anmol Gupta

Abstract Background The utilization of family planning services has improved over the decade, but still the SDG’s health target to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services is yet to be achieved. Methods A cross-sectional study was undertaken in the rural field practice area of Department of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, from July 2018 to June 2019. Total sample size calculated was 410. Random sampling was used to select eligible couple to whom a predesigned, pretested, semi-structured and anonymous interview schedule was administered after taking consent. Results The mean age of the participants was 28.9 ± 5.9 years. The modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) was found to be 67.7% among women of reproductive age group (15-49 years). Male condom (36%), followed by female sterilisation (30%) were the most common methods preferred. Conclusions Besides male condoms and female sterilisation, other methods of contraception were adopted by meagre number of women. Though, the unmet need for family planning was lesser in this study, still, efforts are needed to plunge it, for ameliorating the contraceptive prevalence rate. Also, the availability of basket of contraceptive choices in government sector need sheer assiduity. Key messages The continuing IEC activity related to family planning methods need to be upsurged, so that the available contraceptives reach the community by and large. The government system of provision of contraceptives may be made accessible and convenient, so that the beneficiaries are inclined to utilise these services.


Author(s):  
Ramesh Devidas Pawar ◽  
Shital Pratapsing Solanke

Background: Unmet need is the discrepancy between reproductive intentions and birth control practices. If the unmet needs remained neglected it leads to population explosion which is one of the greatest threats to India’s economic, social and political development.  A community-based study was carried out in rural areas with the objective to find the prevalence of unmet need for family planning and its socio-demographic determinants among married women of reproductive age.Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted between January to June 2019. After calculation of sample size 670 participants were selected by simple random sampling method.  Predesign and semi structured Performa was used for data collection. Data was collected and analyse using Epi Info 7.Results: Unmet needs of family planning among the study subject was 31.19% (57.58% for the spacer and 42.42% for limiter). It was significantly higher among the Muslim (66.67%) and Boudh (40.38) religion. It was higher among Illiterate (40.82%), women residing in joint families (72.16%). Unmet need of family planning was significantly associated with age of women, religion, educational status of women and their husbands, occupation, type of family, no of children the women have and age at marriage.Conclusions: Unmet needs among married women in the reproductive age group was still high and was significantly associated with age of women, religion, educational status of women as well as their husband, occupation, type of family, number of children the women had and age at marriage.


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