Knowledge and practice of family planning methods in women of childbearing age

Authors

  • sajid Raza Yusra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Samar Akhtar Yusra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Hamad Ahmed Yusra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Gulkhubaz Khan Department of Pharmacy, Kohat University of Science and Technology, 26000 Kohat, KPK, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53576/bashir.002.02.0038

Keywords:

Key Words: Family planning, Contraceptive pills, Cross-sectional study, Marriage, Pregnancy

Abstract

Background: Increase in the human population entails implementing family planning and contraceptive methods. Globally, modern contraception had risen from 54% in 1990 to 57.4% in 2015. Overpopulation has an adverse affects both on the society and on the environment which may lead to several hurdles, including shortage of food, diseases, and contamination of the environment.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the females who were visiting the gynecology-OPD or admitted in gynaecology wards of Ayub Teaching Hospital. A total of 200 women pateints were interviewed and data was collected by using a structured questionnaire. The data was analyzed using SPSS 16.0.Results: Among 200 females, 64% were from rural areas and 65% were educated. The husband unemployment was as low as 4% and most of the females i.e 97% were housewives. Approximately, 71.5% of females were aware of family planning and thier major source of information was lady health workers 32%. A 63.5% agreed that family planning is good for mother's health while only 37% knew about family planning methods and 35.5% knew about various techniques of contraception. The 17% female were using male condoms as a method of contraception due to its convenience while only 10.5% knew about least adverse effects. About 22% of females knew that contraception methods can stop unwanted pregnancy while 40.5% of females were aware of the negative effects of OCPs. Conclusion: We concluded that most females were aware of family planning methods, its effects on health, its risk of failure, convenient way, permanent techniques and adverse effects of contraceptive pills.

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Published

2021-12-25