Level and Correlates of Unmet Need of Contraception among Women in Extended Postpartum in Northern Ethiopia
Table 3
Unmet need for FP, FP use, and reasons for nonuse of FP in EPPP, in Tahtay Koraro, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2014.
Variables
Frequency
Percentage (%)
Reasons for non-use of FP (retrospective) (n=81)
Fear of side effects/ health concerns
30
37
Infrequent sex
14
17.3
Non-menstruating since last birth
11
13.6
Up to God
11
13.6
Husband opposition
6
7.4
Others
11
13.6
Current FP use
Yes
120
29.3
No
289
70.7
Total
409
100%
Unmet need with LAM exclusion (prospective)
Spacing
207
50.6
Limiting
50
12.2
Total
257
62.8%
Unmet need (prospective, outcome variable)
Spacing
121
29.6
Limiting
29
7.1
Total
150
36.7
Reasons for current non-use of FP (n=289)
No-menstruating since last birth
201
69.6
Side effects/health concerns
39
13.5
Not having sex
25
8.7
Infrequent sex
22
7.6
Husband opposition
15
5.2
Breast feeding
13
4.5
Want another child
8
2.8
Up to God
7
2.4
Others
11
3.8
(NB: for the reason of non-FP use, n=81 and n=289, the total sum of the reasons is higher because some women gave more than one reason as multiple response was allowed).
