EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE DETERMINANTS OF UNMET NEED FOR CONTRACEPTION AMONG WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE IN RURAL MEERUT

Ravi Shastri; Pawan Parashar; Varsha Chaudhary

Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2019

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE DETERMINANTS OF UNMET NEED FOR CONTRACEPTION AMONG WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE IN RURAL MEERUT

Ravi Shastri, Pawan Parashar, Varsha Chaudhary

Abstract :

Family planning promotion has the potential to reduce poverty, maternal and child mortality, high risk pregnancy and abortion. The present study was conducted to find out the prevalence and determinants of unmet need among the women of reproductive age group in the rural population. A community based cross–sectional study was conducted in rural setting of Parikshitgarh block of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. 285 women of reproductive age group (15–49 years) were selected by multistage random sampling. Information regarding the unmet need and its determinants was obtained by door–to–door survey. In this study, contraceptive use was seen in 52.6%women, unmet need for contraception was found in 22.8%women and important determinants identified were age of the women(56%women of <30 years didn’t use contraception), religion(Muslim women had higher unmet need(26.5%) compared to Hindu women(16.7%)), level of husband’s education(83%women with unmet need had husbands with ≤ high school education), number of living children(less the number of living children, less was the unmet need), role of male partner and source of information.