Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month:July-September | Volume: 5 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 440-448
Determinants of Contraceptive Use in North Sulawesi Based on Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey 2017
Brigitte Inez Maitimo1,Ardiansa A.T. Tucunan2
1Researcher, National Department of Population and Family Planning, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
2Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Sam Ratulangi, Manado, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Brigitte Inez Maitimo
ABSTRACT
Contraceptive prevalence and the unmet need for family planning are key indicators for measuring improvements in access to reproductive health. Many elements need to be considered by women, men, or couples at any given point in their lifetimes when choosing the most appropriate contraceptive method. The aim of study was to analyse the relationship between determinants which have affected on contraceptive use. This study was an analytical survey which conducted on 585 women of childbearing age which obtained from secondary data of Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey of North Sulawesi in 2017. Technique sampling used purposive sampling. The IDHS 2017 sample framework uses the Master Census Block Sample from the results of the 2010 Population Census (SP2010). The results of study are these variables like age (0.000), education (0.000), occupation (0.002), using the internet (0.000), visiting health facilities (0.001) have a significant correlation with contraceptive use, rather than variables reading the newspaper (0.535), hearing the radio (0.513), watching on TV (0.688), knowledge of family planning method (0.500), role of couple (0.910), role of family (0.993), role of officer (0.170), role of community leader (0.108), role of midwives (0.094). The conclusion is age, education and using the internet are the stronger variables which affected to contraceptive use, followed by visiting health facilities in the last 12 months and occupation.
Keywords: contraceptive, visiting health facilities, occupation