Factors influencing the use of modern contraceptive use among sexually active unmarried women (15-24) in Uganda

Abstract

Introduction; Uganda being a member of the UN, it aims at achieving SDG goal 3 healthy lives and well-being at all ages, modern contraceptive use becomes the only option left for people to have affordable and healthy children. Objective; The main objective of this study was to understand the factors associated with modern contraceptive use among sexually active unmarried women in Uganda. Other objectives were to find out whether listening to radio increased the odds of utilising a modern method. Data and methods; The study utilized secondary data from UDHS 2016 individual recode file. The data was weighted to minimize errors and have statistics that were a representative of the whole population. A total of 2175 sexually active unmarried women were selected in this study to infer to the whole population in this study. At univariate level, percentages and frequencies were used to know how many sexually active women were involved according to background statistics. At bivariate chi-square test was used to test for independence between modern contraceptive use and independent variables. At multivariate level odds ratios were used to find out the nature of association Results; majority of the sexually active women were from central region followed by eastern region. Northern region had the least number of respondents. Sexually active women.56.3% of these were in the rich wealth quintile relative to 15.7% from the middle quintile. Women from the muslim religion (OR=1.146) were more likely to use a modern method as compared to those from the catholic religion (OR=0.9) Recommendations; More education should target places where most Catholics stay. Population policy should be made implicit to reduce on the fertility rate and increase the use of modern contraceptives.