Factors associated with utilization of long term family planning methods among women of reproductive age attending Bahir Dar health facilities, Northwest Ethiopia

Abstract

ObjectiveThis health institution based cross section study was designed to determine factors associated with utilization of long term family planning methods among women reproductive age attending Bahir Dar health facilities.ResultA total of 406 women were interviewed in this study. The mean age (standard deviation) of the study participants was 26.96 ± 6.31. About 99% of the study participants were consisted from Amhara ethnic group and 60.6% of them urban dwellers. In this study about 90.9% of the study participants had information about LTFP methods and 26.4% of them utilizing the methods. Factors like; knowledge of the women towards LTFP, spousal discussion on FP and occupation of the women affects LTFP utilization (6 times, 3 times and 4 times, respectively) when compared with their counter parts. In addition monthly income of the household was also associated to LTFP methods. In this study less percentage (26.4%) of women’s utilizing LTFP methods that were significantly associated with the knowledge of women on LTFP, spousal discussion on FP, occupation of the women and monthly income of the household. As result continuous health education will be recommended.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-4031-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…We observed higher prevalence in the current study as compared to similar studies in Ethiopia, Indonesia and elsewhere (5,6,(10)(11)(12)(13). This difference might be due to the socio-demographic variability in the study areas, where all of our study participants were from urban who might have more access to family planning information.…”

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“…Compared to women who decide jointly with their partners, women who decide alone on fertility had lower odds of using RLTCs. This was in agreement with studies in Ethiopia, Zambia, and Uganda, where women who discuss with husbands were more likely associated with RLTCs utilization ( 11 , 12 , 27 – 31 ).Women with a better attitude towards RLTCs had much higher odds of using RLTCs than their counterparts. This finding is consistent with other studies from Ethiopia ( 27 , 32 , 33 ).…”

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