Effect of Culture on Family Planning among Women of Child Bearing Age in Oloku Community

ABSTRACT

Contraception play an important role in the life of men and women and is viewed in the wider work context of sexual and reproductive health.

Family planning is the arrangement, spacing and limited wishes and socio - circumstance of the parents. But due to their culture, people of Oloku do not always agree to family planning method.

The reason for this work was to collect information relevant to the aim of study.

Know factors which hinder knowledge and support of family planning, correct miscommunications and present recommendation which would promote family planning.

The significance of the study was based on the ground that the findings would help to identify the effect of culture on family planning. The study would also serve to create awareness and educate the community on the importance of family planning and help reduce the incident of unwanted babies and juvenile delinquencies arising from lack of parental care.

The research design was non experiment design using exploratory and analytics approach in order to find out the effect of culture on family planning among women of child bearing age in Oloku community.

The target population was 600 women of child bearing age (20-40years) and out of which 60 women were selected as research sample using simple random sampling technique.

The researcher used questionnaire as an instrument to collect data and 60 copies of the questionnaire were distributed to the respondents by the researcher and same retrieved after filling.

 TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page                                                                                          i

Certification                                                                                     ii

Dedication                                                                                        iii

Acknowledgement                                                                                    iv

Abstract                                                                                            v-vi

Table of contents                                                                           vi-ix

List of table                                                                                      x

List of figures                                                                                   xi

CHAPTER ONE

 Introduction                                                                                   1                     

1.0 Background of the study                                                      1                                             

1.1 Contraception                                                                          1                                                                     

1.2 Statement of problem                                                           2

1.3 Objective of study                                                                  2

1.4 Significance of study                                                              2-3                                                     

1.5 Research questions                                                                3

1.6 Scope of study                                                                         3

1.7 Operational definition of terms                                          3

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature review                                                                                4-5

2.1 Meaning of family planning                                                             5

2.2 Brief national history of family planning                                      5-6

2.3 Methods of family planning                                                             6-19

2.4 Factor influencing acceptance of family planning                     19

2.5 The main factor                                                                                   19

2.5 The importance of family planning                                                19-23

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 Methodology                                                                                       24

3.1 Design of study                                                                                    24

3.2 Setting of study                                                                                   24

3.3 Target population                                                                               24                                                                  

3.4 Sample/ sampling technique                                                           24-25                                    

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 Finding                                                                                                   26

4.1 Result analysis of data                                                                       26-32                                                

4.2 Answering of research questions                                                   32-33

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0 Discussions                                                                                           34

5.1 Discussion of finding/relationship with other                             34

5.2 Implication for nursing                                                                      35

5.3 Summary                                                                                              35

5.4 Conclusion                                                                                            35-36

5.5 Limitation of the study                                                                      36

5.6 Recommendation/suggestion for further studies                     36-37

Reference                                                                                                     38

Appendix                                                                                                      39-41

The descriptive statistic was used in analyzing the data collected and result we're presented in frequency distribution and percentage tables.

Table 4:7, showed that 10 (16.6%) of the respondent have a low awareness of family planning, 20(33.3%) have average level of awareness, while 30(50%) have