Situation analysis of Participation of Married Men in Family planning - AlkalaklaAlgoba North-Jebel Aulia Locality-Khartoum State (2014)

Abstract

Background: Family planning allows individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births.

.Objectives: The overall objective was to study the situation of the married men in Alklakla Algoba North regarding their attitude and participation of family planning.

Methods: A community-based descriptive cross sectional study conducted from April 2012 to April 2015 at Alklakla Algoba North in Jabal Awlia Locality - Khartoum State. The estimated sample size mounted to three hundred and seventy two participants .By simple random sample clusters are selected and all house hold in the cluster were included(single-stage cluster sampling).A standardized administered questionnaire was developed, pre –tested and used to generate information on personal –demographic characteristics, general knowledge, attitude and participation about family planning methods .A modified scale (Very poor –Very good) and six point Likert type scale was used. The collected data were analyzed by the computer programme SPSS version 16 and presented as tables, pies and pillars coupled with narrative description. Regarding test of significance, p-value was accepted as 0.05.

NMJ June 2015 vol.3 No.16 ISSN 1858-6155

Results: Third of participant (35%) were fall in age group (30-39). The results showed that the vast (98% of participants had heard about family planning from mass media source, In addition 94% of participants knew that family planning methods could be obtained from health related facilities.52% of the participant did not use to help their wives in the choice of the family planning methods. Most participant (56%) did not use FP methods because they did not have enough information, (28%) of them did not participate for religious reasons and (18%) for cultural reasons. Moreover the knowledge of the respondents was statistically significant with the level of education (p-value =0.04) and opinion of men (p-value=0.021).

Conclusion: Most of the interviewed men had heard about family planning from mass media source and their knowledge about types of the methods , In addition they had negative attitude towards helping their wives in choice of the family planning methods. The dispute on the religious beliefs and cultural taboos that cast a grey shadow for many people on the use of family planning has to be clearly resolved.