Fmaily Planning Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among married women in Bahri district ,Khartoum state 2022.
Fmaily Planning Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among married women in Bahri district ,Khartoum state 2022.
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Date
2022
Authors
Mai Hassan Alamin Hassan
Meaad Alaauldin Yassin Mohammed
Fatima Ahmed Alturaify Ahmed
Alaa Bannaga yagoub Musa
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Napata College
Abstract
Evaluation of the various factors that influence the use of family planning services is important to improve services and policies. This study aimed to asses Knowledge ,Attitude and use of family planning methods among married women in Khartoum North (Bahri).
A cross sectional study was conducted in a simple randomized sampling of
married women between November 1st 2022, and December 5th 2022.
Four hundred married women aged 20-49 were surveyed using a structured
questionnaire. The mean age of the participants was 30-39 years, 55% were
university educated and 52% were housewives. More than half of them (59%)
had 1-3 living children.
All of the respondent's (100%) were aware of at least one contraceptive method. The most common source of information on contraception was doctors (46%),
followed by Healthcare center staff (43%) and finally by social media , friends and family.
More than two thirds of participants ( 74%) reported use of at least one
contraceptive method, and about (26%) have not used any family planning
method. Pills were the most commonly used method ( 52.7%) followed by
natural method ( 20.3%), Implants (18.9%), condoms(9.5%)and ligation (8.1%).Among these more than half (66%) reported adverse side effects ranging from
irregular menustrautions (59.2%) to inflammations (38.8%) , to unwanted
pregnancies (10.2%) and even ectopic pregnancies (8.2%) and uterine
perforations (6.1%).
Among the women not using family planning methods (26%), the causes behind not using them were commonly the adverse health effects(46.2%),husband
refusal (42.3%),no desire to regulate pregnancy (38.5%), no enough information (34.6%) and religious causes (26.9%).
The majority of these women (76.9%) had no desire for future use and (23.1%) had intention to use family planning methods in the future.
This study reveals that with increase level of education, awareness also
increased. Most of the respondents have the considerable knowledge and
favourable attitude towards contraceptive methods and the wide knowledge
practice gap has shown a decrease in this study, which was contradictory to
findings of studies done in other developing countries. Improved female
education strategies and better access to services are needed to solve these
problems. The use of communication media suitable for audience and
adequate message is important in conducting effective family planning
awareness activities. Efforts should be made to educate the public about the
safety and convenience of modern, long term, reversible methods of
contraception among both healthcare professionals and the public.