Promoting family planning use after childbirth and desire to limit childbearing in Ethiopia

Reproductive Health

Yishak Abraham Lailulo¹  Aristide Bado¹  A Sathiya Susuman¹ 

[1] Department of Statistics & Population Studies, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

关键词: Mortality;    Fertility;    Limiting;    Spacing;    Desired family size;    Contraceptive use;    Family planning knowledge;   

Others  :  1146311
DOI  :  10.1186/1742-4755-11-53

 received in 2014-03-19, accepted in 2014-07-04,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

In Ethiopia the average fertility rate in rural areas is about 6 children per woman, while it is 2.4 children per woman in urban areas. It is with this concept in mind that the investigators of this study wanted to correlate the promotion of after-child-birth-use of family planning and desire to limit childbearing in Ethiopia. Postpartum amenorrhea signifies the interval between childbirth and the return of menstruation.

Objectives

The specific objective is to examine the desire to limit family size, along with cases of sterilized, fecund, postpartum amenorrhoea, declared in-fecund and menopausal women within the study area.

Methods

The study is based on the analysis of secondary data obtained from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). This study is concentrated on couples because we need to know more about married people’s desire to limit their family size. The bivariate, ANOVA, and multivariate analyses were used to analyse the association.

Results

The total number of respondents was 6,745 (78.3% rural and 21.7% urban), with 93.6% of them being currently married and 6.4% of them living with a partner. The mean duration of amenorrhea among women who gave birth in the five years preceding the survey is 16 months. Women with equal numbers of sons and daughters were found to be 75.4% (OR = 0.25) less likely to desire more children, compared to women with more sons than daughters.

Conclusion

Achievable resolutions include increasing females’ ages at marriage, avoiding unwanted teenage pregnancies, completely eradicating home delivery, and inspiring young people to use modern methods of family planning to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Sathiya Susuman et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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