Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Women of Reproductive Age Living in Shebedeno Volume 6 - Issue 4

Kaleab Tesfaye Tegegne¹*, Yohannes Kifle², Teshale Belayneh³, Eleni Tesfaye Tegegne⁴ and Mekibib Kassa Tessema⁵

• ¹Department Of Public Health, Hawassa College of Health Science, Hawassa, Ethiopia
• ²Department Of Public Health, Hawassa College of Health Science, Hawassa, Ethiopia
• ³Department Of Public Health, Hawassa College of Health Science, Hawassa, Ethiopia
• ⁴College Of Medicine and Health Science, School of Nursing, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
• ⁵Leishmania Research and Treatment Center, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

Received:June 22, 2021   Published:July 06, 2021

Corresponding author:Kaleab Tesfaye Tegegne, Department Of Public Health, Hawassa College of Health Science, Hawassa, Ethiopia

DOI: 10.32474/RRHOAJ.2021.06.000241

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Background: Throughout the whole world, the unmet need for family planning data has become a very useful tool in measuring and predicting the contraceptive needs of a population. Access to family planning services and awareness has improved greatly, but the unmet need for family planning continues to remain high.

Objective: To assess unmet needs for family planning and the factors responsible for this unmet need for family planning among women of reproductive age in shebedino.

Methods: A community-based cross sectional household survey was conducted. And pretested questionnaires were administered for 196 women of reproductive age in shebedino from June; to July 2019. All research group members were undertaken data collection .216women of reproductive age in shebedino were selected by systematic random sampling technique and the data was collected from house to house . The data were entered and cleaned in SPSS version 20 for analysis. Multivariate Logistic regression was used identify factors associated with unmet needs for family planning.

Result: The Westoff model revealed that the total unmet need for family planning was 17%; 12% for birth spacing and 5% for birth limiting. Multivariate regression revealed that the unmet need was significantly associated with age, region of residence, experience of child loss, education level, partner’s education level and knowledge level on contraceptives (p < 0.05).

Conclusion: The unmet need for family planning was still quite high among the respondents and associated with various determinants that should be considered while planning for scaling-up healthcare program. To address this current high level of unmet need for family planning in urban regions, the government should focus on promoting level of education beyond primary level, improve maternal and child healthcare, and adopt region and age specific programmatic actions in order to reduce unmet need to an acceptable level.

Keywords: Unmet Need for Family Planning; associated factors of unmet need for family planning.

List of Acronyms And Abbreviation: CBD: Community-based Distributor; CI: Confidence Interval; CPR: Contraceptive Prevalence Rate; DHS: Demographic and Health Survey; FP: Family Planning; GOK: Government of Kenya; IEC: Information, Education and Communication; IPDC: International Population and Development Conference; LAM: Lactational Amenorrhoea Method; MDG: Millennium Development Goal MNCH: Mother and Child Health; OR: Odds Ratio; PMTCT: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission RH: Reproductive Health; SPSS: Statistical Packages for Social Sciences UN: United Nations; UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund WFS: World Fertility Survey; WHO: World Health organization.

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