Assessment of factors associated with non use of modern contraceptive methods among currently married women in reproductive age group in Kirkos sub-city, Addis Ababa city administration
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2010-06
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Addis Abeba Universty
Abstract
Back ground- “Reproductive health ... [implies that people] have the capability to
reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so. Implicit in this last
condition are the right of men and women to be informed and to have access to safe, effective,
affordable and acceptable methods of family-planning of their choice ...” It is obvious that
solutions are necessary to slow the rapid rate of population growth all over the world, in
developing countries, as well as those in which people are not poverty stricken. One of the most
popular solutions currently for decreasing the birth rate is to increase use of birth control and
decrease nonuse rate.
Objectives: To assess factors associated with non use of modern contraceptive methods
among currently married women of reproductive age group (18-49 years age).
Methods: Community based cross-sectional study was conducted in Kirkos sub-city, Addis
Ababa city Administration from November 2009-June2010. Both quantitative and qualitative
data collection method were used. Focus group discussion will be a qualitative method to
complement the finding of the quantitative study. Data entry, data cleaning and analysis will be
done by EPI INFO version 6 and analysis will be done using SPSS version 11 statistical package.
Results: Of the total respondents one hundred thirty three (16.1%) had ever used MCM and
272(32.8%) were never user of MCM. The current contraceptive prevalence was found to be
51.1%. Most women used Injectable and OCP. The main reasons for nonuse MCM were desire
to have more children followed by medical problem. Of current non user 53.3% had intended to
use MCM in the future. It was found that all women 828(99.9%) had information about MCM.
The main source of information for MCM was health workers. In multivariate analysis,
statistically significant association were found between MCM non use and respondent age,
children ever born, educational status of respondents, husband educational status, occupation of
respondent, source of information, and husband approval of MCM (PV < 0.05).
Concussion: Current CPR is relatively low in the sub-city; MCM should be distributed at
community level especially those non clinical methods by using urban health extension workers.
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Assessment of factors associated with non use of modern