School of Nursing and Midwifery

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    Womens Intention to use Long-Acting and Permanent Methopd and Associated Factors among Family Planning Users in Addis Ababa Public Health Centers ,Addis Ababa ,Ethiopia 2020.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2020-06) Demeke Berihun; Abebe Mesfin (Prof); Tesfaye Jembere(MSc)
    Background: Family planning (FP) is a process that involves a discussion and decisions between couples and trained health care provider focusing on family health and their desires of either limiting or spacing their family size. It enables couples to decide the number of children to have and to better plan their childbearing. There is a significant positive linkages between FP and maternal and child survival and wellbeing. Objectives: To assess the magnitude of women‟s intention to use long-acting and permanent contraceptive methods and associated factors among family planning users in Addis Ababa public health centers, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020 Methods: Facility-based cross-sectional study design was implemented in Addis Ababa public health center.Data was collected by using a pretested structured Amharic version interview administered questionnaire on 504 participants, which was selected by multi stage cluster sampling methods among short term family planning users in selected public health centers from march to April 2020 G.C. Data was coded and entered into EPI INFO version 4.6.0.0 and exported to SPSS version 25.0 for statistical analysis. Data were presented and summarized using tables and graphs.Factors were analyzed by Bi-variate followed by multivariate logistic regression to determine independent predictors at a 95% confidence interval. Result: The prevalence of intention to use long acting and permanent methods(LAPMs) among Participants was about 60%. The main reasons for not intending to use were of fear side effect (55.7%), to get pregnant(46.4%) and cultural taboo(27.6%). Desire number of children(AOR:14.55,3.29-64.21),respondents education(AOR:0.36,0.20-0.64) and participants occupation status (AOR:8.75,1.31-58.41) were also significantly associated with intention to use LAPMs. Conclusion: According to the findings of the analysis the magnitude of intention to use LAPMs within the study area was(60.0%) and intention depends on knowledge on LAPM attitude on LAPMs, desired number of children ,respondents education and respondents occupation.