Contraceptive Utilization Among Couples and Associated Factors in Dodota District, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Abstract

Introduction: Family planning service technology has the potential to benefit to people at lower cost than any other technology now available for development. In the study area there is no adequate information that this study intended to fill up. Objective: This study assessed contraceptive utilization among couples and associated factors in Dodota District, Oromia, Region, Ethiopia. Study Period and Design: A cross sectional, community-based study was conducted in four rural and one urban Administrative village of Dodota District of south east Ethiopia; between September 01, 2015 and April 30, 2016. Systematic random sampling used to select the study subjects. A pre-tested questionnaire in local language was used to collect information from the couples. Similar questions were posed to the couples simultaneously but at distance they couldn't hear each other. Result and Discussion: A total of 345 married couples studied. Age of the husband, age of women, husbands having family planning information, number of children ever born by women, women education and family size were statistically independent predictors of family planning use by women. Conclusion and Recommendation: In married couples, both women and men factors affect family planning service utilization by the women. Therefore, all programs targeted to promoting family planning have to address both men and women, men should be considered as an important agent to expand family planning utilization.