A KAP Study on Family Planning Practices Among Married Women Attending Urban Health Training Centre, Narayana Medical College, Nellore (A.P)
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: In1951, India became the 1st country in the world to launch family planning programme. Since then approaches for reducing population growth have taken a variety of forms but with a little success. According to National Population policy2000 the TFR to be achieved by 2010 was 2.1.Objectives: To study the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding family planning among the married women attending the urban health training centre of Narayana medical college, Nellore. Methodology: The study is conducted over a period of 3 months from Oct.2016 – Dec.2016 on 170 married women attending UHTC, NMC, Nellore and who were willing to be interviewed. The study tool is a pre-designed, semi-structured questionnaire. Data collected will be entered in MS-Excel and analysed using SPSS version 22.0. Results: Among the 170 married women the results were as follows: 50% were in the age group of 20 -29 years, 22.4% were illiterates. 75.3%women were home makers. 38.8% were married below the age of 18 years. While 67% of the women completed their families, 51.2% had 1 living son. 69% were aware of family planning. Almost 52% said decisions regarding family planning were made by husband & in-laws. There was significant association between awareness regarding family planning with age of the women, caste, education and occupation of the women, and also age at marriage and age at 1st delivery. Conclusion: awareness regarding family planning should be improved. Women should be given free hand regarding decisions concerning family planning.
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Jyothi Conjeevaram, Sasikala P. , Chandrasekhar V. , Kumar C
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