Assessment of unmet need for contraception in an urban area of Pondicherry
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Introduction: World-wide, 64% of married women use contraception but an estimated 225 million women in developing countries would like to delay or stop childbearing but are not using any method of contraception. Globally, the prevalence of contraceptive use has been increasing, but the unmet need for contraception still remains a problem. Objectives & Methods: To assess the unmet need for contraception among the eligible couples residing in urban area of Pondicherry; to study the socio-demographic characteristics of those with the unmet need and the reasons for not using contraception. In this community based cross-sectional study all married women in the age group of 15 – 45 years residing in the Shanthinagar subcenter area were interviewed using a semi-structured pre-tested questionnaire. Results: The unmet need for family planning was found to be 20.5%, the unmet needs for spacing and limiting were 4.9 per cent and 15.6 per cent respectively. The most commonly adopted method of contraception among the users were tubectomy for limiting and condoms for spacing. Significant difference was seen for age, education, number of children and male involvement in decision making about contraception between the women with unmet need and without unmet need of family planning. Client related factors like lack of awareness about contraception, irregular periods, post-partum amenorrhoea were the most commonly stated reasons.
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Vasudevan K Kavita, Soundarya C
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