Awareness, Utilization and Barriers to family Planning Services among Female youth Students at Assella Preparatory School
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2014-05
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Addis Abeba Universty
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Background: Currently contraceptive use is lower among young women in Ethiopia. According
to EDHS2011 report out of sexually active 5% of all women age 15-19 and 7% of age 20-24
reported current use of any contraceptive method. Currently there is a growing interest in
adolescent reproductive health because teen age pregnancy in particular is associated with high
maternal, fetal and neonatal problems which makes it is an important public health issue
internationally and nationally. There is growing evidence that teen age girls who get pregnant are
likely to drop out of school and if become teen age parents are likely to face social and economic
problems. There is a low rate of use of sexual reproductive health service in the study area.
Objective: To assess the level of awareness, attitude of contraceptives and utilization of family
planning services among female youth students and barriers that hinders effective use of the
services.
Method: Institutional based cross sectional study was conducted in Oromia regional state Arsi
zone Assella town, Assella preparatory school. Systematic random sampling was used to select
study subjects for survey while purposive sampling was used to select study subjects for
qualitative study. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data and
interviewer topic guide was used for qualitative. The survey data was entered in to Epi, Info
version 3.5.4 and exported, cleaned and analyzed using SPSS version 21. Factors associated with
utilization of family planning were identified using logistic regression and content analysis of
qualitative data
Result: Of 296 female youth students 288(97.3%) have heard about contraceptive methods. The
first common source of information about family planning was mass-media180 (62.5%) and the
least source of information (8.3%) was internet. Out of sexually active respondents, (61%) with
(95%CI 55.5-66.5) currently using a contraceptive methods. Those who reside in urban and those
who were satisfied with family planning service were found to use contraceptive AOR=4.60,
95%CI 1.06-19.96 and AOR=9.75, 95%CI1.62-58.71respectively.
Conclusion: Relationship with parents in terms of sexual health among female youth were low ,
family life education program in school and elsewhere should provide female youth with
essential information how to guide them and refrain from unnecessary sexual practice ,STI and
HIV/AIDS.
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Awareness, Utilization and Barriers