UNASSIGNED: Our aim was to find out the prevalence of contraceptive usage, unmet need and their determinants among tribal married reproductive women.
UNASSIGNED: A community-based, observational, analytical research using cross-sectional design was conducted among 290 tribal women of the Nadia district of West Bengal.
UNASSIGNED: After obtaining ethical clearance, an interviewer-administered pre-designed, structured proforma was used to collect information on socio-demographic attributes, marital history, contraceptives and fertility status, unmet needs and the reasons for not using contraceptives.
UNASSIGNED: Bi-variate analysis was used to know the differences and a two-tailed significance test with a P value of 0.05 or less was considered statistically significant.
UNASSIGNED: The present study revealed a high prevalence of teenage marriage (60.7%) and pregnancy (27.6%). Every one in six tribal women was illiterate. The contraceptive prevalence rate was 43.8%. Tubectomy (38.6%) was the most common method (38.6%) and unfelt need (19.6%) was the most common reason for non-use. Age, occupation of women, social class, living status, marital duration, number of living children and desire to have a future child were found to be associated with the current contraceptive use. Social class, number of living children, contraceptive awareness, source and place of availability, abortion history, opposition from family and husband, and husband participation all were significantly associated with the unmet need for family planning.
UNASSIGNED: In-depth counselling focusing on achieving a satisfactory level of awareness and acceptance of family planning methods may help to achieve reproductive health by reducing unmet needs.
■我们的目的是了解避孕药具的使用率,部落已婚育龄妇女中未满足的需求及其决定因素。
■基于社区的,观察,对西孟加拉邦纳迪亚区的290名部落妇女进行了横断面设计分析研究。
■获得道德许可后,面试官管理的预先设计,结构化形式用于收集有关社会人口统计属性的信息,婚姻史,避孕药和生育状况,未满足的需求以及不使用避孕药具的原因。
■使用双变量分析来了解差异,并且P值为0.05或更小的双尾显著性检验被认为具有统计学意义。
■本研究显示,少女婚姻(60.7%)和怀孕(27.6%)的患病率很高。每六个部落妇女中就有一个是文盲。避孕普及率为43.8%。输卵管切除术(38.6%)是最常见的方法(38.6%),而未感觉到的需要(19.6%)是不使用的最常见原因。年龄,女性职业,社会阶层,生活状态,婚姻期限,发现在世儿童的数量和生育未来儿童的愿望与当前的避孕药具使用有关。社会阶层,活着的孩子的数量,避孕意识,来源和可用性的地方,流产史,来自家庭和丈夫的反对,和丈夫的参与都与未满足的计划生育需求显着相关。
■以达到令人满意的对计划生育方法的认识和接受为重点的深入咨询,可能有助于通过减少未满足的需求来实现生殖健康。