Male Involvement In Family Planning In Ambo Town, Oro Mia Region
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2009-10
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Addis Ababauniversity
Abstract
In recognition of men's influence on f amily life decision and actions and family planning
needs, men are encouraged to involve in family planning programs to determine the most
important socio-cultural, demographic and family planning factors that influence male
involvement infamily planning.
A cross sectional community based study was conducted in Ambo town, from February 28 to
March 7, 2009 using Systematic sampling to select the study subjects .Moreover, Pre-tested
questionnaire in Afan Oromo was used to collect information from respondents. Both primary
and secondary source data were used in the study. This study tries to assess male involvement
in family planning in the study area. To attain the intended objectives, a total of 422 currently
married men agedl5-59 years were included in the study. Multivariate analysis was applied
to examine the demographic, socio-economic and family planning factors influencing current
contraceptive use of couples by using Logistic Regression model. The analysis was performed
by using SPSS (version 15) software.
More than three quarter (84.8%) of the respondents are from the oromo ethinic group, sixty
four percent are 35 and above years old, 69.7% is Orthodox Christians, 61.6% of them have
completed junior secondary and above education. Ninety eight percent are monogamous in
marriage, 67.6% have three and above children and 61.1% do not want to have additional
children.
Ninety percent of the respondents have knowledge of at least one method of family planning
methods, 66% of them reported that they approve their wives' contraceptive usage, and
43.6% have discussed about family planning with their wives. Nearly two third (65.3 %) of
the respondents reported that either their wives or themselves are using contraceptive
methods. About quarter (17.3%) of the ;espondents are using male methods of contraception
and 30% reported as having an intention to use contraceptive in the future. Both bi-variate
and multi variate analysis have shown that age, number of living children, desire for
additional children, discussion with wife about family planning, husband approval of his wife
contraceptive use and knowledge of family planning are predictors of family planning use of
the respondents . The health facility assessment filrther revealed that, the existing health
institutions did not fiiljil the education, counselling and method service provision regarding
family planning especially to male clients in the study area. The facilities lack a staff with
appropriate training on male concernedfamily planning service provision.
The finding of the survey confirms that the contraceptive utilization of wives or husbands is
affected by demographic, socio-.cultural and family planning characteristics of the
respondents and institutional features. Therefore, in order to address the problem, it is
recommended that additional to addressing women in the reproductive age group, all
programs targeted to promoting family planning service have to focus on men so as to
encourage them to use the available male methods of family planning and serve as agents to
expand the use of family planning utilization
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OroMia Region