Survey women educational needs about routine O.C.P.s

Abstract

Developing countries have a high population growth rate with a dearth of resources. Despite widespread use of contraceptive methods, the rate of unwanted pregnancies is high. Oral contraceptive pills use is one of the suitable contraceptive methods in young couples to prepare to admit maternal and paternal responsibilities. This was a descriptive cross-Sectional study that 310 women in Hamedan city were selected by simple randomly and assessed with interview form including demographic data and educational needs about OCPs (LD, tri phasic & mini pill) with content validity and Test re test reliability. Data analyzed with SPSS software. To evaluate relationships used X2 test. Maximum sample of research 36.4% had 2 children, 35.4% had unwanted pregnancy, and 13.5% had abortion history. Educational needs 60% about OCP were high, only 40% were moderate. There were significant statistic relationship in educational needs and female education level (PV<0.0005), their job (FP<0.0005), husband education level and his job (PV: 0.003). There was not significant statistic relationship in another variable with their knowledge about OCPs. Poor knowledge of contraceptive methods is due to lack of contraceptive medical counseling. Lack of knowledge is a major contributing factor to contraceptive failures and to about 50% of unwanted pregnancies. Lack of patient knowledge, ineffective contraceptive methods, and inconsistent use of contraception are among the most important factors resulting in contraceptive failure.