Contraceptive prevalence and usage of different contraceptive methods and its correlates in an urban slum area of western maharashtra - a cross sectional study

Abstract

Background: Acceptance of family planning methods are influenced by a variety of interrelated factors such as age, education, number of living son, type of family, etc. Objectives: 1. To find out contraceptive prevalence and usage of different contraceptive methods among ever married women aged 15 to 49 years in an urban slum area. 2. To study the different variables affecting the contraceptive prevalence among married women aged 15 to 49 years. Design: A community based cross sectional study. Setting: 400 married women of age group 15 to 49 residing in the urban slum area, catered by U.H.C. of the Department of Community Medicine, Dr. V.M.G.M.C Solapur, Maharashtra. Methods: By using systematic random sampling method, every 7th household was selected and data was collected by house to house visits and interview of study population with a pre-designed pre-tested proforma. Chi- square test used to analyze data. Results: Contraceptive prevalence was 70.25%. Acceptors of terminal method of contraception were more (80.07%) than spacing methods (19.93%) amongst contraceptive users. Contraceptive use was found to be significantly associated with age, education, number of living son, type of family and number of living children of women. Conclusion: Counselling of women should be done especially in urban slum areas by health worker for appropriate use of contraceptive like spacing methods. Male child syndrome should be removed from peoples by I.E.C activity.