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Fırat Tıp Dergisi
2009, Cilt 14, Sayı 4, Sayfa(lar) 237-241
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The Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviors Regarding Family Planning of the Women Who Gave Birth in Niğde Maternity Hospital
Ebubekir GILIÇ1, Osman CEYHAN2, ALİ ÖZER3
1Bor Sağlık Meslek Lisesi, NİĞDE, Türkiye
2Erciyes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Halk Sağlığı ABD, KAYSERİ, Türkiye
3Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Halk Sağlığı ABD, KAHRAMANMARAŞ, Türkiye

Objective: This study it aims to discover the women's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors on family planning and to determine the factors to produce them.

Materials and Methods: The research has been carried out on 304 women who gave birth in Niğde Maternity Hospital January-February 2001.

Results: Of the women included in this study, 7.2 % was 18 years of age and below 10.2 % was 35 and over of the study population 18.4% did not have any schooling, neither did 3.3 % of these women's husbands. The percentage of the women who expressed that they did not want any more children was 64.1. It was also found that 44.4 % of the women did not plan their pregnancies.While 98.2 % of the women approved of employing family planning methods, 56.3 % used some method of family planning or another. The family planning method best known to women is RIA but the method which has been used most extensively is the one known as ‘withdrawal method'. The method which the women wanted to employ after delivery was the RIA favored by 64.1 % of the women in our study. A vast majority of the women expressed that family planning improved both maternal and child health as well as contributing to domestic and national economy.

Conclusion: The knowledge, attitude and behaviors regarding family planning of the women who gave birth in niğde maternity hospital are not intended level.


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