Contraceptive Use Among Urban and Rural Women in Debre Tabor Town Administration, South Gondar Zone, Amhara Region
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2009-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The obj ective of the study is to examine the levels of contraceptive use of women of childbearing
age in Debre Tabor Town administration, South Gondar zone, Amhara Region The
contraceptive use of 630 (296 sub-urban and 334 urban) women of childbearing age (15-49
years) and some correlates of contraceptive use in the study area have been dealt.
The main rationale of the study includes assessing and determining the level of contraceptive use
and the reasons for use and non-use of cOl1lraceplive methods and provides institutions with
opportunities for inteervention in contraceptive lise. The sllldy is cross-sectional study design
employing both quantitative and qualitative methods.
The current contraceptive use of the study area is 34.3 % (38.02% for the urban residents,
30.07% for the sub-urban residents) whereas the ever use of contraceptives was 39. 7%. Current
contraceptive lise by age indicates that there is high contraceptive use in the age group 25-34
years compared to 15-24 and 35 + age groups. In addition, the main results of the chi-square test
and binOlY logistic model revealed that contraceptive use is significantly affected by the number
of living children, desire for more children, educational level of women, work status of women
and media exposures. The knowledge of any method of contraceptive was 94%. The commonly
used methods of COl1lraceptives in the study area include injectables followed by pills, condoms
and nO/plants for women The two main purposes of using contraceptives include spacing for
children (50%) and limiting for children (33.3%) and other reasons (16. 7%).Spacing dominates
over limiting. The most important reasons for non-use include method related reasons followed
by fertility related and opposition related reason of the total non-users reasons.
On the part of the conclusion, women as a whole have low contraceptive use. Finally,the
recommendations of the study forwarded include promotion of lEC, provision of forums,
debates, trainings, workshops, discussions, experience sharing, educating women and providing
option for women, providing education on the benefits of small family size and family planning,
and enhancing females decision making and autonomy.
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