Women decision making on use of modern family planning methods and associated factors, evidence from PMA Ethiopia

ConclusionHalf of the women independently decide their family planning use which calls up on further improvement. Family planning use decision making ability is expected to be improved by efforts targeted on husbands ’ approval on wife’s family planning use, discussion on family planning use with husband/partner, improving women psychosociological readiness and trust on her own to decide her desired family planning method; informing the possible side effects and what to do when they encountered during their family planning use visit. In addition, influencing women on the use of family planning via religious leader will help much in this regard. Monitoring and evaluating reproductive health policy 2021 to2025 and addressing bottlenecks which hinder women decision making health service use is hoped to im prove women family planning use decision making. Further qualitative study to identify and address factors that contribute for the variation across regions also help much.
Source: PLoS One - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Source Type: research