Understanding Family Planning Practices Among Rural Tribals of Dibrugarh District. Assam.

Abstract

RESEARCH QUESTION:What is the extent of use of family planning practices and what are the factors influencing the methods of contraception? OBJECTIVE: To find out the distribution of family planning practices with respect to literacy, age and reasons for not practicing any method. STUDY DESIGN: Community Based Cross sectional study. MATERIALS & METHODS:Multistage sampling technique was used to select the sample. Villages were selected by stratifying them according to the presence of tribal and non tribal population. Thereafter the tribal dominated villages were selected at random and house to house visit was made. A total of 303 married women in the age group of 15-45 years living with their spouses were interviewed using a pre designed questionnaire. Chi square test was used for the analysis. Results: Couple Protection Rate is 29.7%. Acceptance of family planning methods is associated with education of husbands and increase in age of wives. Conclusion: Family planning practices is observed to be poor amongst the tribals and therefore motivation of the couples is to be stepped up.