FACTORS AFFECTING UTILIZATION OF FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES AMONG ELIGIBLE COUPLES, IN SELECTED URBAN SLUMS, BHUBANESWAR, ODISHA

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MAITRI DAS and KALYANI RATH, “FACTORS AFFECTING UTILIZATION OF FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES AMONG ELIGIBLE COUPLES, IN SELECTED URBAN SLUMS, BHUBANESWAR, ODISHA”, ijmhs, vol. 11, no. 02 (Mar - April), pp. 1588–1591, Mar. 2021.
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Abstract

Background:  Even though increased facilities are being provided for family planning program in all the  sections of the society, the factors such as age at marriage, education, economic status, religion which play an important role in adopting it. Objective: To find out the association between socio demographic variants with the adoption of family planning practices. To find out the factors for utilization and non-utilization of family planning services. Materials and Methods: In this study,300 women of reproductive age(15–49 years)residing in urban slum areas were interviewed, and slum areas houses were selected by using the systemic random     sampling technique. The association between the variables was assessed by using ?? 2-test or chi-square statistical analysis, and analysis was done by the use of SPSS software,version20,and Microsoft Excel, 2007. Result: Majority of the women (76.3%) were using contraceptive methods. Effective couple protection rate in this study was found which is higher than the Odisha state figure [i.e., 63.3% (NFHS-IV)].Of the total subjects, the factors  for the non-utilization of family planning services are opposition from husband (7.7%)and misconception were(7.3%)and against the religious faith were(6.3%).And the association of the socio demographic variable with that of the use and non use of family planning services were highly significant with( p value=0.000) except to that of  type of family variable with (p value= 0.199).Conclusion: Need of the hour is to promote long term family planning methods to get desired outcome among the eligible couples. This can rather help in decrease of the female mortality rate and even help in the population.

KEY WORDS: Eligible couple, family planning, urban slum

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