Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Family Planning Among the Currently Married Men in a Rural Area of Jhalawar District, Rajasthan
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 11
Abstract
Introduction: Population explosion has been India's major problem since independence. Adoption of family planning methods is one of the best solutions to tackle this prob-lem. To achieve targets in family planning programme active in-volvement of men is required hence exploring the role of men regarding contraceptive practices is important. Objective: The study conducted to assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practices regarding Family plan-ning among the married men. Material and method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a rural health-training center area of Jhalawar Medical College, Raja-sthan from June, 2018 to Oct. 2018. A pretested semi structured ques-tionnaire was used for data collec-tion. Results: Among the 220 partici-pants, (75.45%) were using some family planning method. 30% par-ticipant has average knowledge, 65.5% good knowledge about con-traceptive method. 93.18% has good attitude and 6.82% has poor atti-tude. 80% participant had good practice regarding family planning. Conclusion: majority of participants were having good knowledge and attitude towards family planning methods and the current use of fam-ily planning methods was good.
Authors and Affiliations
Vinod Kumar, Arvind Kumar Nagar, Vandana Meena, Mayank Jain, Deepak Kumar Dubey, Uma Shankar Shukla
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