A Study to Determine the Quality of Life among the Permanent Contraceptive Adopters and Non-adopters at Selected Rural Areas of Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Contraceptive information and services are fundamental to the health and human rights of all individual, prevention of unintended pregnancies helps to lower maternal ill-health and the number of pregnancy-related deaths (According to WHO). Between 2000 and 2020, the contraceptive prevalence rate (percentage of women aged 15-49 who use any contraceptive method) increased from 47.7 to 49.0% and 77.5% globally in 2022. In Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, total modern methods used is 59.8%, female sterilization is 41.6% male sterilization is 0.2%, IUD usage is 2.2%, pill usage is 3.1%, condom usage is 11.7%, and injectables contraceptive usage is 0.9%. AIM The aim of the study is to determine the quality of life among the permanent contraceptive adopters and non-adopters at selected rural areas of Dadra & Nagar Haveli. METHODOLOGY Non-experimental two group comparative descriptive design with non- probability, purposive sampling technique was used to select 100 samples, who fulfilled inclusion criteria. WHO quality of life scale (BREF), that is self-administered scale was used to assess the level of quality of life. RESULT The result of the study showed that the adopters mean value was 70.3450 and the standard deviation was 8.55458, non-adopters mean value was 60.4000 and the standard deviation was 6.76406, ‘t’ value was 6.448 which was higher than the table value and ‘P’ value was 0.000. So there was a highly significant difference between the quality of life among the permanent contraceptive adopters and non-adopters. Hence research hypothesis was accepted. CONCLUSION The study proved that the quality of life among the permanent contraceptive adopters is much better than non-adopters. Hence there is a need to create awareness and provide health education on Family planning methods to the non-adopters.