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Contraceptive knowledge, practices and utilization of services in the rural areas of India (An ICMR Task Force Study)
To obtain information form rural women regarding their contraceptive
knowledge, practices and utilization of services, a cross-sectional
survey of 117,465 eligible women was carried out in the sampled areas
of 28 districts from January 1996 to February 1997. From among the
current contraceptive users all of IUD, OC and acceptors of a permanent
method in the last one-year (14,276) were interviewed in detailed. In
addition a systematically selected sample of 17,082 non users were also
interviewed. Overall contraceptive prevalence was 45.2% of which 34.2%
had used a permanent method. Among the current users, the contraceptive
had been availed mainly from either PHC (31.5%) or hospital (42.1%).
Around half the women (53.1%) had received counseling and in 20.3%
information regarding other methods. Pelvic examination was done in
39.1% Most of the women (>97%) expressed satisfaction with the
method, provider and services. Almost all the women (98.8%) were using
a contraceptive method with the knowledge of their husband and had his
support for continuing the same. There was no concept of using any
family planning method for either postponing the first conception after
marriage or spacing between the two child births. A large majority of
women (70.5%) used a family planning method for the first time only
after completing their desired family size. Among the never users,
73.5% mentioned at least one modern method of family planning available
in the national programme and 64.3% mentioned the service source where
it would be available. Fewer women in most of the districts mentioned
spacing methods as compared to female sterilization. The main reason
given for not using any family planning method was "family not
complete" (34.6%). There is need to promote spacing methods by policy
makers and field workers and motivate couples to accept them