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Abstract
Family planning allows people to attain their desired number of children and determine the spacing of pregnancies. It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility. Family planning helps everyone (women, children, men, families and nations). Specifically, it protects women from unwanted pregnancies, thereby saving them from high risk pregnancies or unsafe abortions. If all women could avoid high-risk pregnancies, the number of maternal deaths could fall by one-quarter. Also other benefits accruing from family planning methods include prevention from cancers, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS.
Promotion of family planning methods and ensuring access to preferred contraceptive methods for women and couples is essential to securing the well-being and autonomy of women and supporting the health and development of communities.
According to EDHS (2008) the discontinuation of a method within 12 months of starting it in Egypt is over 26%. In fact, discontinuation of contraceptive methods threatens the family planning programmers. It also reflects improper screening of clients for medical eligibility or inadequate counseling. The actual reasons must be revealed in order to take the appropriate measures to eliminate them and to insure reasonable continuation of contraceptive methods. Therefore, this study was carried out to assess the Patterns of Utilization of contraceptives among women attending the Well-baby clinics in Damanhur city.
The study aimed to:
Assess the Patterns of Utilization of contraceptives among women attending the Well-baby clinics in Damanhur city.
To fulfill the study aim
The study was carried out at nine well-baby clinics in Damanhur City namely, Abo El- Reesh Service Center, El Hilal Service Center, Salah El Din Service Center, Shubra Service Center, Shubra Child Care Center, El Hilal Child Care Center, Saad Medical Center, Nasser Medical Center and Abo Abduallah Child Care Center. Data was collected from 360 women who were married, aged between 18-45 years old and currently using a family planning method.