Assessment of women perception and attitude towards contraception in Gadaka Town, Fika Local Government Area, Yobe State of Nigeria.

Abstract

Contraception has become a major strategy of population control both at the national and global level, yet population growth in Nigeria remains high especially in rural areas due to partly lack of adequate knowledge and poor perception about the need to utilize contraception methods. The aim and objectives of this study is to assess the attitude and perception of women toward contraception in Gadaka town, to identify the distance covered in accessing contraception services, to assess the level of women education toward contraception. The study seeks to examine the perception of women and attitude toward contraception in Gadaka town. The study adopted qualitative approach which includes a survey of 100 randomly selected women from the community; the qualitative data were analyzed using contents analysis. The findings reveal that majority of the women interviewed are aware of contraception, the level of practices is higher especially among the educated women and this implies the positive among the education and practices of contraception. The distance covered in accessing contraception services as shown in table indicated that 20 respondents representing 40% are closed to the health center less than (one) 1 km and 13 respondents 26% 1 to 2 km close to the contraception centres. The study also reveals that women perceived contraception as a welcomed strategy to control population and make mother's healthy and strong after child birth. The conclusion to be drawn from this study is, however that of acceptance of contraception that education plays vital role in the perception of women and attitude toward contraception. Finally, to change a society like this with depth of poverty, certain guidelines should be followed to bring about awareness of contraception among the people and reconstruct their attitudes towards birth control programme