跳至主要内容

Assessment of the Magnitude and Associated Factors of Unmet Need for Family Planning among Women of Reproductive Age Group with Disabilities in Bahir Dar City, Amhara Region, North West Ethiopia

Read  full  paper  at:
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53784#.VNMc0izQrzE

ABSTRACT
The study was conducted to assess the magnitude and associated factors of unmet need for family planning among women of reproductive age group with disabilities who are members of disabled associations in Bahir Dar town. Institution based cross-sectional study was carried out. A total of 337 women of reproductive age group with disabilities were included in the study with simple random sampling. Data were collected through face-to-face interview, coded, cleaned and entered by Epi info 2002 and analyzed with SPSS version 16 computer software. Logistic regression was used to assess possible associations. The magnitude of unmet need for family planning among women with disabilities was 24.3%. Women with disabilities in the age group of 25-29 had 80% less likely to have unmet need than women above 35 years old. Women with disability who have no education were 11 times more likely to have unmet need than those who have secondary education. Women who desire to have more than 3 children have more likely to have unmet need than those who need to have 1-2 children. Unmet need for family planning among women with disabilities was high in Bahir Dar town. Age, Educational status and desired number of children were found to have statistically significant association with unmet need for family planning. Hence, it is important to encourage people with disabilities to attained formal education and the associations should provide short term trainings in accordance with their age group.
 
Cite this paper
Tessema, A. , Bishaw, M. and Bunare, T. (2015) Assessment of the Magnitude and Associated Factors of Unmet Need for Family Planning among Women of Reproductive Age Group with Disabilities in Bahir Dar City, Amhara Region, North West Ethiopia. Open Journal of Epidemiology, 5, 51-58. doi: 10.4236/ojepi.2015.51007.
 
References
[1]Hailemariam, A. and Haddis, F. (2011) Factors Affecting Unmet Need for Family Planning in Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 21, 77-89.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v21i2.69048
 
[2]USAID (2010) The Unmet Need for Contraception in the Developing World and the Former Soviet Union. Academic Article Journal from International Family Planning Perspectives, 28.
 
[3]Anthony, L.O., Joseph, U.O. and Emmanuel, M.N. (2009) Prevalence and Determinants of Unmet Need for Family Planning in Nnewi, South East Nigeria. International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 1, 325-329.
 
[4]Center for Reproductive Rights. Reproductive Rights and Women with Disabilities, 2002.
 
[5]USAID (2010) The Status of Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa.
 
[6]Kols, A. (2008) Reducing Unmet Need for Family Planning: Evidence Based Strategies and Approaches. Outlook, 25.
 
[7]Ashford, L. (2009) Unmet Need for Family Planning: Recent Trends and Their Implications for Program.
 
[8]USAID (2010) Three Successful Sub-Saharan African Family Planning Programs.
 
[9]Mekonnen, W. and Worku, A. (2011) Determinants of Low Family Planning Use and High Unmet Need in Butajera District, South Central Ethiopia. Bio Med., 2011.
 
[10]Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD) in Collaboration with DKT (2012) Assessment of Sexual and Reproductive Health Products and Services Use by Persons with Disability.
 
[11]Getiye, D., Mekonnen, A. and Amanuel, A. (2013) Prevalence and Associated Factors of Unmet Need for Family Planning among Arried Women in Enemay District, Northwest Ethiopia. Global Journal of Medical Research, 13, 29-30.
 
[12]Central Statistical Agency [Ethiopia] (2011) Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 
[13]World Health Organization (2013) Contraceptive Prevalence Rate, Total Fertility Rate, Unmet Need for Family Planning. WHO in the Western Pacific.
 
[14]Sahele, S. (2003) Assessment of the Magnitude and Determinants of Unmet Need for Family Planning among Currently Married Women in Urban and Periurban Community in Hawassa, Southern Ethiopia. Ethiopia Journal of health Science, 21, 68-70.                                                                                                  eww150205lx
 
[15]NCAPD Policy Brief (2010) Fulfilling Unmet Need for Family Planning Can Help Kenya Achieve Vision.    
标签：

评论

发表评论

此博客中的热门博文

Does Immigration Promote the Investment of the Monopolistic Firm?

In the present paper, we examine the effect of increasing uncertainty of immigrants’ growth on the optimal timing of investment of a firm that has a monopolistic power over the labor market. It is revealed that when the uncertainty of immigrants’ growth is more than a threshold level, increasing uncertainty of immigrants’ growth accelerates the optimal timing of firms’ investment and enhances the economic growth, even if the uncertainty of immigrants’ growth is formulated by the geometric Brownian motion, which is in sharp contrast to the standard result that an increase in the uncertainty postpones the optimal timing. With an increase in the immigrants over the past ten years, workforces in the host countries have been growing significantly to the extent that the immigrants represent 70% of the increase in the workforce in Europe, and 47% in the United States as OECD indicates. In the present paper, we attempted to investigate the effect of increased uncertainty caused by the growi...
发表评论
阅读全文

Education Policy Implementation: A Mechanism for Enhancing Primary Education Development in Zanzibar

Education is one of the fundamental rights of individuals; therefore, the government of a country needs to develop and strengthen educational policy and quality as well as to ensure that everyone has equal access to basic education. The improvement of access and quality of education in the world is becoming as an essential factor in development, whereas the basic education (primary school), is acknowledged as a foundation of the higher educational development for every country. To fulfill this goal, governments introduce several policies and procedures; however, it requires some reforms and participation from the politician, policymakers, and other stakeholders to re-examine educational policy so that it can lead to multiplication and betterment of the reforms. Educational reforms actually focus on accountability. A positive educational development and reform is very challenging and needs more effort and strategy on how to use and utilize the resources effectively as such it can achie...
发表评论
阅读全文