DEMAND FOR MODERN CONTRACEPTIVES USE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG CURRENTLY MARRIED WOMEN IN AWBARE REFUGEE CAMP, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA.

Abstract

Modern contraceptive use is considered worldwide as cost-effective way of improving the health of women and children, the benefit of which tackles down to their families, community and country over all. The problem of unmet need for FP at community especially reproductive age women is very critical but it under reported and eventually remains without intervention.Moreover, meeting unmet need for family planning would avert unwanted or mistimed pregnancies and thereby reduce unsafe abortion.Objective: Toassessdemand for modern contraceptive method and associated factors among currently married womenin Awbare refugee camp Somali region, Ethiopia. Methods:A cross sectional study was employed among randomly selected 571 women atAwbare refugee camp Somali region, Ethiopia.Simple random sampling was used to select the study participant. Pretested,interviewer-administered, structured questioner was prepared and used to collect the data. Data entry wasmade using the Epi-data version 3.02 software and cleaned for implausible and missed data values. Then the data was exported to statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 20 for further analysis. Exploratory analysis was conducted to find out outliers, missed values and inconsistency. Descriptive statistic using frequency and percentagewas used.Multivariateregressionswere used to investigate the predictors.Results:The findings of this study show that 84% of the respondents have demand for use family planning methods in the future but the remaining 16% of the respondents are not happy to use family planning methods in the future. The major reason of respondents who are happy to use family planning is for spacing purpose and the most common types of family planning methods preferred by the respondents is pills (54%) and injectable (26%). According to the result obtained from logistic regression model with CI 95 % age of the respondents, partners occupation, knowledge about contraceptive, and utilization of emergency contraception has highly significant effect on demand for modern contraceptives. The study recommends that educating women’s in refugee camp, more use of media, conducting further research, and expanding health facilities.