Open AccessStudy on Determinants of Contraceptive Use: A Community Based Study in Eligible Couples
Author(s) -
Bhaskar Prasad Singh,
Amrendra Narayan Choudhary,
Kamran Fazal
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of medical and biomedical studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-8698
pISSN - 2589-868X
DOI - 10.32553/ijmbs.v6i3.2454
Subject(s) - family planning , medicine , family medicine , population , nuclear family , systematic sampling , stratified sampling , cross sectional study , developing country , sample size determination , demography , gynecology , environmental health , research methodology , economic growth , sociology , economics , statistics , mathematics , pathology , anthropology
Background: family planning methods are influenced by a variety of interrelated factors such as age at marriage, education, economic status, religion, number of living children, knowledge about contraceptives, availability, accessibilityand quality of services In spite of many programmes, couples are not aware of contraceptive methods even though they are wish to follow small family norm and still there is a gap between knowledge, attitude and practice. In a developing country like India, despite widely available contraception methods, still there is poor acceptance due to ignorance or fearof complications using them.
Methodology: The present cross sectional study was conducted at PHC, field practice area of Department of community medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru medical college and Hospital Bhagalpur. Study duration of two years. According to DLHS-3 prevalence of contraceptive acceptance in Bihar state was 63.2%. Sample size is calculated by taking prevalence rate of contraceptive use (63.2%) at 5% significance level and 10% allowable error. There are 28 anganawadi centers in ourstudy area. A list of eligible couples was obtained from each anganawadi and 10 eligible couples was selected randomly by Stratified Random Sampling.
Results; The total prevalence of contraceptive use in the study area was 58.6%. It was found that practice of family planning methods was high among Hindu (87.2%) compared to Muslims (12.8%). It has been found that 40% of study population was from nuclear family. Forty six percent of the acceptors of contraceptives were held from nuclear family ascompared to 32% from joint family.
Conclusion: The Female literacy rate is exceptionally higher than national average. Early marriage is a prominent featurein the study area. Different factors namely age at marriage, type of family, number of living children, literacy status of female partner, and socioeconomic status significantly affect contraceptive behaviour of the studypopulation.
Keywords: Eligible couple, contraception, sterilization.