Use of Postpartum Modern Family Planning Methods and Its Association with Utilization of Maternity Services among Women of Child Bearing Age in Nigeria | Chapter 11 | Research Highlights in Disease and Health Research Vol. 6

 The objective concerning this study was to ascertain the connection between exercise of maternity services (UMS) and postpartum new family planning (PPMFP) uptake between Nigerian women in the generative age group while taking into account the impact of the district of maternity services approach. Family planning (FP) allows public to space their pregnancies and have the number of children they want by utilizing various methods of birth control. This was a descriptive epidemiological study that complicated the analysis of secondary dossier from the 2013 Nigerian Demographic Health Survey (NDHS). The source of dossier for this study was the women’s questionnaire of the 2013 NDHS. It given recent information on strength indicators containing family planning as well as different demographic characteristics of daughters of reproductive group of same status 15–49 years. To ascertain the friendship between the PPMFP uptake and the IDV/added control variables, descriptive enumerations, chi-square testing, and logistic reversion analyses were carried out. . Statistical meaning was claimed at p<0.05. Utilization of period of being pregnant with child services was associated with greater uptake of PPMFP among the wives (>/= 4 ANC visits OR = 2.08, 95% CI=1.65–2.62, P<0.001; public facility transmittal OR= 1.80, 95% CI= 1.54–2.10, P< 0.001; private facility delivery OR =1.54, 95% CI 1.28–1.85, P< 0.001; PNC OR=1.21, 95% CI= 1.02–1.43, P=0.029). Accessing postnatal care uncommunicative health facilities was guide increased rude answer of PPMFP (OR= 1.46, 95% CI =1.05–2.02, P= 0.024). The number of children alive, instructional attainment, wealth index and bearing information about FP waited significant predictors of PPMFP uptake. In Nigeria, postpartum use of up-to-date contraceptives among women of generative age was positively equated with the use of maternity duties (ANC, health facility transmittal, and attending PNC). Among Nigerian women of accouchement age, use of maternity services was definitely correlated accompanying postpartum use of contemporary family planning methods. However, accessing postnatal care in private conveniences was associated with larger uptake of PPMFP.

Author(s) Details:

Innocent Anayochukwu Ugwu,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) and ESUT Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.

Imose Itua,
Department of Public Health and Healthcare Management, University of Liverpool / Laureate Online Education, Liverpool, UK.

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