Knowledge and practice of family planning among women of reproductive age group in Awutu Senya East Municipality in the Central region of Ghana
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September, 2019
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Introduction:The effective use of contraceptive methods in the population would
help reduce significantly unwanted pregnancy rates, maternal, perinatal and infant
mortality rate, unsafe abortion, adolescent pregnancy rate and control population
growth. This can be achieved when people have much knowledge and practice of
family planning.
Objective: The study was conducted to assess the knowledge and practice of current
family planning among women in their reproductive age in the Awutu Senya East
Municipality.
Methods:The study was community-based quantitative cross-sectional study. A
multistage sampling method was used to select 316 women in various groups of the
municipality using cluster sampling technique. A structured administered
questionnaire was used as the data collection tool. SPSS software version 23 was
used to analyze the data collected. Univariate analysis was used to describe the
variables. Bivariate analysis using Chi-square was performed to test the associations
between independent variables and knowledge and practice. Multivariate binary
logistic regression analysis was used to determine factors associated with knowledge
and practice of family planning.
Results:The results show that the proportion of women with adequate knowledge on
family planning was 88.6%. The proportion that practice was 67.4%. Educational
level (AOR= 1.23; 95% CI=1.03-6.43), marrital status (AOR= 3.21; 95% CI=1.56-
3.78), number of children (AOR= 2.17; 95% CI=1.32-8.54) were the demographic
factors found to be significantly associated with family planning knowledge.Marrital
status and number of children also significantly influenced practice.There was
however a strong positive correlation between knowledge score and practice score
with correlation coefficient of 0.692.
Conclusion: This study has revealed that the proportion of women who currently use
contraceptive is good. Knowledge level on family planning was very high and
knowledge correlates positively into practice as a strong positive correlation was
observed between knowledeg and practice.
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This dissertation is submitted to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Master of Science degree in Environment and Public Health.
Keywords
Family planning, Women, Awutu Senya East Municipality, Central region, Ghana