Magnitude and Associated Factors of Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Married Women of Rural Sude Woreda, Arsi Zone, Oromia Region
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Back ground: Although there is an increased contraceptive prevalence rate over a time and many organizations involved on family planning programs, results from different studies indicated that
high unmet needs exist for family planning in Ethiopia. How ever, studies on magnitude and
determinants of unmet need for family planning in Ethiopia are limited to certain urban areas and
couldn’t be generlizible to the rural communities. Therefore, this study identified the magnitude
and associated factors of unmet need for family planning specifically among rural women of
selected woreda and could be used for designing and monitoring the family planning programs.
Objective: To assess the situation of family planning among currently married women of rural
Sude Woreda, Arsi zone, Oromia Region.
Methodology: Community based cross-sectional study design was used from March to April,
2010. Multi stage sampling technique was used. Primarily, simple random sampling technique was
used to select four kebeles from 37 rural kebeles of selected woreda. By using systematic sampling
technique 820 Households were selected at every fixed number of households. Only one
respondent who met inclusion criteria was interviewed from each household. Focused Group
Discussion and key informant interview was done to strength qualitative data. The data was
analyzed by using Epi-info and SPSS.
Results: Unmet need for family planning was found to be 16.5%, of which 8.6 % and 7.9 % were
for spacing and limiting, respectively. Only age was found to be significantly associated with
unmet need for limiting [AOR: 2.41, 95%CI: (1.083, 5.368)].
Conclusions: Generally, the current study indicated that the contraceptive prevalence among
currently married reproductive age women was higher than that of national and oromia. High
proportion of women who want to use methods for limiting birth, were found to be using
injectables and pills, due to un availability of long term and permanent methods of contraceptives
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Family Planning