Abstract

Sabita Sharma*

ABSTRACT

Universal access to family planning is a human right, center to gender equality and women's empowerment, and key factor for reducing poverty. The objective of the study is to find out the determinants of contraceptives usages among the married women of reproductive age in Chepang community. A descriptive cross- sectional study design was carried out among 420 married women of reproductive age (15-49) in Korak Village Development Committee of Chitwan District, in which semi-structured interview based questionnaire was used. Data were statistically analyzed by using descriptive statistics. Data analysis was done by using SPSS (Statistical Package of Social Science) version 23 by using descriptive and inferential statistics (bivariate analysis, multivariate analysis). The study findings revealed that the current contraceptives prevalence rate was 50.2 percent. The education status of both respondent and husband, types of family, family income, age at marriage, age at first pregnancy, number of pregnancy, number of living child, next desire of pregnancy, awareness of contraceptives methods, problem faced during receiving services, inter-spousal communication and autonomy were statistically significantly associated with the contraceptives usages. Multivariate binary logistic regression in the study concluded that education status of the respondent (Adusted Odd Ratio [AOR]=0.3, 95% CI: 0.174-0.72), next desire of pregnancy (AOR=0.09, 95% CI:0.40-0.217), awareness level (AOR=2.3, 95% CI: 1.17-4.66), inter-spousal communication( AOR= 3.2, 95% CI: 1.52-6.82) were the key determinants in the contraceptives usages.