Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
Open Access

Research Article

Assessment of Unmet Needs of Family Planning and Reasons for Non-Use of Contraceptive Methods among Women in Reproductive Age in Rural Community

Department of Community Medicine, Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Pune, India

*Corresponding Author:

Pandve HT
Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine
Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical College and General Hospital, Narhe, Pune, India
Tel: 912024106268
E-mail: dr_harshalpandve@yahoo.co.in

Received date: July 17, 2017; Accepted date: August 24, 2017; Published date: August 28, 2017

Citation: Valekar SS, Pandve HT, Chawla PS, Mane AB (2017) Assessment of Unmet Needs of Family Planning and Reasons for Non-Use of Contraceptive Methods among Women in Reproductive Age in Rural Community. J Community Med Health Educ 7:549. doi: 10.4172/216a1-0711.1000549

Copyright: © 2017 Valekar SS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Background: Unmet need for family planning (FP), which refers to the condition in which there is the desire to avoid or post-pone child bearing, without the use of any means of contraception, has been a core concept in the field of international population for more than three decades. The concept of unmet need points to the gap between these women’s reproductive intentions and contraceptive behaviour. The sum of the unmet need for limiting and the unmet need for spacing is the unmet need for family planning. NFHS III showed that there is 22% of overall unmet need of family planning. The reasons are multiple to not to use the contraceptive methods. These reasons need to be attended.

Materials and methods: The cross-sectional study conducted amongst 378 women in reproductive age group in rural health training centre of tertiary care hospital with the study tool of semi-structured questionnaire. Women in reproductive age group from 35 villages of primary health centres were participated in the study.

Results: The result showed that 42% women are having unmet need for family planning with higher (63%) unmet need for limiting method than spacing method (37%) and the most preferred method for future use was female sterilization(63%) followed by OC pills(23%). The most common reason among non-users was fear of side effects (34%) of use of contraceptive methods.

Conclusion: Study concludes that there is an unmet need of family planning higher for limiting than spacing methods amongst the rural women.

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