Tesfaye, Tariku (2011) Assessment of Contraceptive Use and Family Size Preferences among Currently Married Women of Reproductive Age in Jimma Arjo District. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Ethiopia is one of Sub-Saharan Africa countries in which high fertility (5.4 births per woman) is observed. Family planning programs have always been considered as the interventions of choice for slowing population growth and family size preference is useful in suggesting its demand. As recent surveys showed, desired family size is smaller than actual family size in almost every country in the developing world and most women who practice contraception do so to space rather than to limit births. Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess contraceptive use and family size preferences among currently married women of reproductive age in Jimma Arjo district. Methods: Community based cross sectional study design combining both qualitative and quantitative methods was conducted from January to February 2011. A total of five kebeles were selected from 22 kebeles in Jimma Arjo district, Oromia national regional state, Ethiopia. Four kebeles were selected from 20 rural kebeles and one Kebele was selected from 2 urban kebeles first by lottery method. Then, 475 households from these kebeles were selected by using systematic random sampling technique and a total of 475 married women were interviewed. Three sessions of FGDs with religious leaders, service providers and married women were also undertaken in respective kebeles to complement the findings of quantitative data. Results: The result indicated that currently 57.7% of married women were using modern contraceptive methods. About half of respondents had 1-3 children followed by 4-6 children. Average number of children a woman had during the survey excluding current pregnancy was 3.8. It also indicated that 307(64.6%) of them need to have 4-6 children in their life time with an average number of 4.09±1.38 children. About 42 % of women who wanted no more children were those using modern contraceptives. In the logistic regression, women of older ages (35-49 years) were more than five times more likely than younger women (15-24 years) to limit child bearing. (AOR: 5.54 (1.8-17.04), 95% CI) and women who have had at least one child death were less likely to intend to limit childbearing as compared to those who have not experienced any child death (OR 0.45(0.3-0.67) 95% CI). Conclusion and recommendation: The use of long acting and permanent methods was seen to be very low and women those desired to limit child bearing in this study area are lower compared to other studies. As a result, any program aimed at promoting family planning in this area should look for ways and means of reducing the intension of having many children.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | contraceptive use, family size preference, currently married women, actual family size and ideal family size |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2018 14:12 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2018 14:12 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8135 |
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