Abstract
Back ground: The continuing growth of the world population has become an urgent global problem. Ethiopia like most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing rapid population growth. Currently, the country’s is population is growing at a rate of 3% is one of the largest rates in the world and if it continues unabated , the population will have doubled in 23 years , preventing any gain in the national development effort. Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers towards family planning in Wonago health center. Methods: cross- sectional study was conducted from April 15, 2004 E.C to June 10, 2004 E.C., in Wonago health center, Gedeo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia. A total of 251 study subjects were selected by systematic sampling technique from mothers of child bearing age (15-49) who attended Wonago health center for any services. Data was collected by using interviewees. Chi-square test and odds ratio were used to assess the presence and strength of association between independent and dependent variables. Result : Out of total 251 women of reproductive age group who participated in the study 206(82.3%) had ever heard about FP, of which 202(98%) knew at least one method of FP and 116(59%) were using some method of FP at time of the study .the information about FP among reproductive age women of urban dwellers is thirteen times higher than rural dwellers OR=13.74(4.747,39.79) p-value 0.001,educational status showed statistically significant difference p-value 0.001 and women who possessed TV two times more likely had ever practiced FP methods than those who did not OR=2.599(1.441,4.6899) ,P-value 0.001. Conclusion and recommendation: In the study the major source of information on FP is from the health institution, majority of the respondents knew at least one type of modern FP methods and socio demographic factors like residence educational status are associated with information about FP and ever practice of it .community should be encouraged to use long term contraceptives so as to space their family and decrease the frequent visit to health institution Keywords: knowledge, attitude, practice, modern family planning DOI : 10.7176/JNSR/9-19-02 Publication date :October 31 st 2019
Highlights
Planning is a decision made by an individual or couple about how many children one would like to have when to start having children, when to stop having children and how long to rest between each pregnancy
The result of our study showed that 82.4% of which urban residents are more likely to be informed on family planning than rural dwellers (96.7%Vs 68.2%); this result showed that urban dwellers have similar but that of the rural one is less when compared with Similar cross sectional study conducted on modern contraceptive and knowledge attitude and practice study among women of reproductive age in Bahir Dar town and per urban area showed that 98% of women in urban and 96% in per urban area had heard of modern contraceptives [14]
Similar cross sectional study conducted to assess the knowledge attitude and practice of the mothers towards the family planning in regions of Amhara, Oromiya, SNNPR and Tigray regions of the Ethiopia to assess the knowledge attitude and practice of women’s towards the family planning showed that 84.0% of women in SNNPR reported that they had heard of family planning method[12]
Summary
Planning is a decision made by an individual or couple about how many children one would like to have when to start having children, when to stop having children and how long to rest between each pregnancy. The growth rate, estimated at less than 0.5% in 1900, increased to 2% in the 1950s, to 2.5% during the late 1970s, and to 2.9 % in 1984. Between 1999 and mid 2000, the population of Ethiopia was estimated to be 62 million with annual growth rate of 3% [3]. Ethiopia like most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, is experiencing rapid population rate of 3% is one of the highest rates in the world and if it continuous unabated, the population will have doubled in 23 years, preventing any gain in the national development effort [7]
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