Assessment of Family planning services utilization among women of Union Council Bangoin (Rawalakot) Azad Jammu and Kashmir
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51985/JBUMDC2022112Keywords:
Contraception, Contraception behavior, Family Planning services, Family planning policy, Sex educationAbstract
Objectives: To determine the percentage of women in Union Council Bangoin (Rawalakot) Azad Jammu and Kashmir
who use family planning services, and to determine the relationship between demographic characteristics and family
planning service use (AJ&K).
Study design and setting: A cross-sectional study was conducted in UC Bangoin (Rawalakot) Azad Jammu and Kashmir
over the duration of 6 months, from 5 January to 5 July 2021.
Methodology: A sample of 344 married women with the age range 18 to 45 was obtained. The study's assessment instrument
was developed from an existing assessment tool (Reproductive health knowledge and services utilization among rural
adolescence in Ethiopia 2014). It included 14 questions on demographics and 13 questions about the use of family planning
services.
Results: High utilization was 52% (n=179) while low utilization was 48% (n=165). Most of them had fear of side effects
of using contraception (n=170, 48.9%). Chi-square test showed significant association (p-val =0.05) between fear of side
effects of using contraception, decision of using contraception, education level, distance from home to hospital, number
of children, exposure to mass media and utilization of family planning services.
Conclusion: There was low family planning services utilization in that area. Study showed that there was a strong association
between fear of side effects of using contraception, low education and low exposure to mass media with utilization of
family planning services in Union Council Bangoin (Rawalakot) Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K).
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