CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE RATE AND UNMET NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING IN TEHSIL DERA GHAZI KHAN

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study is to determine contraceptive prevalence rate and unmet need regarding family planning and to identify factors associated with it among  fecund and sexually active married women in Dera Ghazi Khan.

Study Design: A cross sectional study.

Setting: This study was conducted in catchment area of Tehsil Dera Ghazi Khan involving help of 40 lady health workers selected from Tehsil, D.G. Khan.

Methods: 800 married women in child bearing age (15-49 yrs.) who are fecund and sexually active randomly selected from computer generated number from catchment area of randomly selected lady health workers of her own catchment area of Tehsil, D.G.Khan, District. Multistage sampling technique was used. Data was analysed using SPSS version 23.0.

Results: The results of this study showed that Contraceptive prevalence rate was noted 71.3% and Unmet need regarding family planning was noted15.4% 

Conclusion: It was concluded that It is observed that contraceptive prevalence rate in Tehsil Dera Ghazi khan is high compared to all Pakistan contraceptive prevalence rate by Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey results of 2017-18 which is 34%. While unmet need calculated is 15.4%, very near to total Pakistan unmet need rate of 17.3% and Punjab 15.8%.