FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH UNMET NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING AMONG COUPLES OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE (PUS) IN BANTUL DISTRICT, D.I. YOGYAKARTA Afi Lutfiyati, Dwi Susanti
Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani Yogyakarta
Abstract
Background: A useful measure of the gap between woman^s reproductive desires and the provision of health services is the estimation of unmet need for contraception or called the unmet need for family planning. This indicator refers to women who wish to delay or limit births but didn^t use contraceptive methods to achieve them. One of the reasons why unwanted pregnancies occur were because they did not use contraception, especially married women. If unmet needs were eliminated, fertility would decrease substantially. From a policy perspective, reducing unmet need were important for achieving demographic goals and improving individual rights.
Purpose: To identify the association between access to health services, level of knowledge about family planning, sources of information, discussion of family planning methods with husband, and husband^s support for family planning with unmet need for family planning and to identify the factors that most associated with unmet need for family planning in Bantul District, D.I. Yogyakarta.
Methods: Quantitative research design using a cross-sectional approach. Samples were taken using a cluster random sampling technique, namely 331 couples of reproductive age in Wonokromo I and Wonokromo II villages. Data collection were used a questionnaire in May and June 2021. The research instrument was a questionnaire. The results were analyzed bivariately using Chi-square test and multivariate with logistic regression.
Results: Chi-square test on variables of knowledge about family planning p=0.406, access to family planning services with p-value=0.005, sources of information p=0.001, discussion of family planning methods with husbands p=0.001, and husband^s support in family planning with p=0.001. The OR value of discussing about family planning methods with husband were 6.3.
Conclusion: There was an association between sources of information, discussion of family planning methods with husbands, and husband^s support in family planning with unmet need for family planning in Bantul district, D.I. Yogyakarta. There was no association between knowledge about family planning, access to family planning services with unmet need for family planning in Bantul district, D.I. Yogyakarta. The most dominant factor associated with unmet need for family planning in Bantul district, D.I. Yogyakarta was a discussion of family planning methods with husband.
Keywords: Unmet need, family planning, couples of reproductive age/PUS
