Factors influencing use of family planning contraceptives among married women in Ibanda municipality

Abstract

Studies have shown that contraceptive use averts 272,040 maternal deaths by reducing the chance of pregnancy and the associated complications and closely spaced pregnancies. There this study specifically assessed factors influencing use of family planning contraceptives among married women in Ibanda municipality. The study interviewed a sample of 96 married women in reproductive age using a well-designed and pretested questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using STATA version 15. Results showed that 51% of women were using the modern family planning method especially IUD (49%) and Implants (33%) with majority (87.76%) wanting to space child births. After adjusting for other factors, education level of the woman and partner; number of children and putting into consideration having both boys and girls remained independently associated with contraceptive use. Couple discussion was not independently associated with contraceptive use. Women with some secondary school education having 68 times the odds of using contraceptives than women with primary education (aOR=68.16; 95%CI: 5.49, 145.87). Those whose partners had attained some secondary school education having 6 times the odds of using contraceptives than women with partners who attained primary education (aOR=6; 95%CI: 1.04, 29.63). Women with 4 or more children having 26 times the odds of using contraceptives than women with none or one child (aOR=26.34; 95%CI: 0.99, 683.19). Women that had at least one boy child having 23 times the odds of using contraceptives than women with no boy child (aOR=26.34; 95%CI: 2.38, 124.61) and women at least one girl child having 10 times the odds of using contraceptives than women with no girl child (aOR=9.71; 95%CI: 1.01, 93.67). Decision making about family planning was not jointly done between couple it was either done by the women or the husband would decide for the women to use contraceptives Contraceptive use among married women in Ibanda municipality is significantly associated with, education level of women and partner; and number of children alive. There is need by government and other stakeholder such as NGOs to provide more education about family planning especially use of modern family planning contraceptives in Ibanda and Uganda at large since and the researcher recommends more analysis on the influence of preference of a particular sex of children (sons or daughters) on the use of contraceptives among women in reproductive age