ISO 9001:2015

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE ON CONTRACEPTION IN GURUNG COMMUNITY IN LAMJUNG DISTRICT, NEPAL

Contraceptive uses in remote districts of Nepal are still low despite a high unmet need in the population. The study aims to find out the contraceptive prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practice among women from the case of Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality, Lamjung District. The study reveals that among all respondents, 80% women had awareness of contraceptive, 20% were still unknown about it and 60% respondents had showed strong attitude about using contraception whereas 40 rejected to it. The reasons for not using contraception were socio-cultural factors, confusions, not accessible to them, misinformation and rumour about its side effect, shyness and they were waiting to have more children. A descriptive cross-sectional questionnaire was used for data collection from the randomly selected respondents. The married women between 15-49 years were as an inclusion criterion for the selection of respondents.

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Keywords: Contraception, Female Attitude, Family Planning Method, Health Promotion.


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