Women Satisfaction with Family Planning Services in Maternal and Child Health Centers, Assiut City, Egypt

Safaa Ahmed Mohamed,Amal Fouad Arief,Asmaa Ghareeb Mohamed

doi:10.12691/ajnr-5-3-2

Abstract

Family planning (FP) is critical for the health of women and their families, and it can accelerate a countryâs progress toward reducing poverty and achieving development goals. FP is an important component of primary health care, maternal and child health. It is the means of planning families that want space according to choice and time to fit in with life decisions. Aim: This study aimed to assess satisfaction level of women attending Maternal and Child Health (MCH) centers with FP services. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study design was used. A total sample of 569 women was interviewed at four MCH centers covers Assiut city. Results: The findings revealed that the mean age of the respondents was 29.38± 6.13, 72.2 % of them were from urban areas and 47.3 % currently use a contraceptive method. A high satisfaction level with family planning services was noticed. Conclusion: significantly, the majorities of the clients was satisfied with the provided skills and counseling. It was approved that the most of MCH centers have good quality level in health services and facilities. Recommendation: Family planning providers require training to strengthen their communication skills so that they can meet their clientâs individual needs.

Highlights

Planning is highly beneficial to women’s overall health, in developing countries [12]
Concerning participant's pregnancy and labor history; the results reveals that mean number of pregnancy was 3.09 ± 1.88, more than three-quarters of the study respondents have more than 4 living children
Communication skills with health care providers: 1) Felt able to ask questions 2) Behavior of provider was polite 3) Had confidence in provider was asked about problems and aim of Family planning (FP). 4) The consultation was easy and understandable

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Introduction

Planning is highly beneficial to women’s overall health, in developing countries [12]. Planning programs in developing countries have worked to increase the number of service delivery of points and expand into remote areas; to be effective, they must address issues of service quality. Many family planning experts hypothesized that low-quality family planning services are a barrier to high contraceptive prevalence use [12]. In last decades Egypt had suffered major socioeconomic consequences of overpopulation problem as a result of a high level of the birth rate. Overpopulation and unplanned population growth impede the socioeconomic development, hinder prosperity, and threatens the health status of community members [10]

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