Download or read book Unmet Need of Family Planning in a Rural District Syanja, Nepal written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unmet need of family planning can be explained as the gap between individual contraceptives behavior and individual fertility preference. This study aimed to investigate the determinants of unmet need of family planning, and explore the associations of unmet need with predisposing, reinforcing and enabling factors, however this researcher has attempted to identify the various situations regarding unmet need in the context of the study, which can be representative of the rural setting of any developing country in Asia. This cross sectional study was carried out in Syanja a rural district, of western Nepal, the population consisted of 295 Married Women of Reproductive Age (MWRA) aged from 15 to 49 years. A clustered random sampling technique was used to select the sample group. Descriptive statistics along with chi-square test was applied to compute the association between variables. A set of structured questionnaires were designed to collect the data. The data were collected from Jan. 19th to Feb. 14th, 2014 in eight village development committees of Syanja district in Nepal. The result of this study mostly focused on the unmet need which was analyzed through two different methods, on the basis of the WHO definition of unmet need and on the basis of contextual approach. According to the WHO definition, 11 percent of unmet need was identified whereas unmet need on the basis of contextual study was 54 percent. Eventhough the status of current users were good (61.2 percent) the unmet need was still high. Mostly, this is because of the improper choice of family planning methods. About 80% of respondents had a history of early marriage (before 20 years). Mean age of marriage was 19 ซ2.4 years. Significant association was seen between age group, education and number of living children (