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    MAGNITUDE OF UN MET NEED FOR CONTRACEPTION AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG CURRENTLY MARRIED WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE A CASE OF KERSA MALIMA WOREDA
    (Mekelle University, 2018-06-25) BEDADA MULUNEH
    The unmet need for contraception, which refers to the condition of wanting to avoid or delay childbearing, but without using any contraceptive method, has for decades been a central concept in the field of the international population. The concept had its origins in the first fertility and family planning studies carried out during 1960.This study is designed to assess the magnitude of an unmet need for contraception and its associated factors among currently married women of reproductive age in the Kersa Malima Woreda The study used both quantitative and qualitative study methods. Qualitative methods included focused group discussion (FGD) and key informant interviews. And also the quantitative method employed the community-based cross-sectional study design to assess an unmet need for contraceptive methods. Data for the quantitative study were collected using a structured questionnaire from a total sample size of 307 respondents. The number of married women within the reproductive age group was selected by systematic sampling from seven kebeles and included in the study. Quantitative data were analyzed, using of SPSS 16.0 version. In the analysis process, the frequency distributions of the variables have been calculated to describe them. The cross table was used to predict the relationship between the variables. The bivariate and multivariate logistic regression model was used to predict the association of factors to the unmet need .The current prevalence of contraceptives among married women of reproductive age of kersa malima woreda was 62.8%. And the magnitude of unmet need for contraceptives was 23.4%, which 14.3% of women who wanted space births and 9.1% of women who wanted to limit births. The results of the bivariate analysis show that the age of the women, the educational status and the total numbers of children have been made to be associated with an unmet need for contraception. Accordingly, women aged less than and equal to29 years or younger were significantly about 1.9 times more likely to have unmet need for contraception than women aged above and equal 35 or older [AOC: 1.9, 95% Cl (0.18, 2.03)]. The magnitude of unmet need for contraception was lower as compared with other previous findings and the contraceptive prevalence rate was higher. Fear of side effects, lack of knowledge about contraceptive methods, and the husband opposed was reasoned that have been reported for not using contraceptive methods