Determinant Factors that Influence the Use of Family Planning among Eligible Couples in Rural Amhara: The Case of Bahir Dar Zuria Woreda

Ahmed, Mohammed Hassen (2011) Determinant Factors that Influence the Use of Family Planning among Eligible Couples in Rural Amhara: The Case of Bahir Dar Zuria Woreda. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Rapid population growth is one of the major hindrances of societal development, which in most cases observed in developing countries. Resource shortage, high rate of unemployment, high burden of dependency ratio, environmental degradation, etc, and an overall deterioration of the quality of life are some of the outcomes of rapid population growth. Due to this governments of many developing nations are unable to meet the social and economic needs of their people. In order to avoid problems caused by population growth, practicing offamily planning is one of the most popular controlling methods used as a remedy. Limiting the number of children at household level is a first step to be taken that requires educating and encouraging rural eligible couples to have a small family size. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 140 couples, 70 currently users and 70 currently non-users in ten rural Kebeles using multi-stage stratify and random sampling techniques and the study was conducted to identify the influential factors for the use and non-use of modern contraceptives. Factors identified as determinants were age of males, age during first marriage of females, education level of females, economic status of couples, knowledge about modern contraceptives and attitude of couples, desired number of children of males, reasons given by males to have more children, decision making role of males and sex preference of children of couples. Providing consecutive education on family planning that enable to bring attitudinal and behavioral changes of the rural couples would be much helpful to improve the performance of family planning and thereby couples would have small family size, which is the main strategy to curb the rapid population growth that contributes to the achievement of development.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Depositing User:	Tim Khabala
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2018 10:26
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2018 10:26
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8435

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