Knowledge, attitude and acceptability for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions: A cross-sectional study
Aims: To study the knowledge, attitude, and acceptability of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions. Settings and Design: A cross-sectional study conducted in the family planning clinic of a tertiary care hospital. Methods and Mat...
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| author | Paridhi Gupta Reeta Mahey Neha Varun Maninder Kaur Arun Kumar Satyam Yadav |
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| description | Aims:
To study the knowledge, attitude, and acceptability of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions.
Settings and Design:
A cross-sectional study conducted in the family planning clinic of a tertiary care hospital.
Methods and Material:
Women aged 18–45 years attending contraception counselling sessions were included. Baseline knowledge about LARC methods was assessed. They were given information about LARC methods. Acceptability was assessed on a scale of 0–10.
Results:
Among four LARC methods, awareness about copper intrauterine devices (CuIUD), DMPA injection, subdermal implant and Mirena was 95%, 55.50%, 27% and 3%, respectively. Around 4% were unaware of the LARC method. Of total, 76.50% women procured the LARC methods information from health care workers, whereas 40% attained from friends, family members, neighbors, or colleagues. After counseling, the majority (58%) were willing for subdermal implant. About 27.50% and 13.50% were willing for copper IUD insertion and injection DMPA, respectively. None was willing for Mirena. Acceptability of various LARC methods was scaled on an acceptability score from 0 to 10. For Cu IUD, implanon and DMPA, the acceptability score was 10 in 50%, 40.17% and 25%, respectively.
Conclusions:
There are still gaps of knowledge about benefits and safety of available LARC methods. To improve wide coverage and more acceptability of LARC methods, involvement of health care workers and addition of subdermal implants to contraceptive counseling should be considered. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5f0796a4d5f94fab90948ebe029532512025-02-11T12:54:08ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632278-71352025-01-0114116016610.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_780_24Knowledge, attitude and acceptability for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions: A cross-sectional studyParidhi GuptaReeta MaheyNeha VarunManinder KaurArun KumarSatyam YadavAims: To study the knowledge, attitude, and acceptability of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions. Settings and Design: A cross-sectional study conducted in the family planning clinic of a tertiary care hospital. Methods and Material: Women aged 18–45 years attending contraception counselling sessions were included. Baseline knowledge about LARC methods was assessed. They were given information about LARC methods. Acceptability was assessed on a scale of 0–10. Results: Among four LARC methods, awareness about copper intrauterine devices (CuIUD), DMPA injection, subdermal implant and Mirena was 95%, 55.50%, 27% and 3%, respectively. Around 4% were unaware of the LARC method. Of total, 76.50% women procured the LARC methods information from health care workers, whereas 40% attained from friends, family members, neighbors, or colleagues. After counseling, the majority (58%) were willing for subdermal implant. About 27.50% and 13.50% were willing for copper IUD insertion and injection DMPA, respectively. None was willing for Mirena. Acceptability of various LARC methods was scaled on an acceptability score from 0 to 10. For Cu IUD, implanon and DMPA, the acceptability score was 10 in 50%, 40.17% and 25%, respectively. Conclusions: There are still gaps of knowledge about benefits and safety of available LARC methods. To improve wide coverage and more acceptability of LARC methods, involvement of health care workers and addition of subdermal implants to contraceptive counseling should be considered.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_780_24copper intrauterine devices (cuiud)dmpa injectionlng ius (mirena)long-acting reversible contraceptive (larc)subdermal implant |
| spellingShingle | Paridhi Gupta Reeta Mahey Neha Varun Maninder Kaur Arun Kumar Satyam Yadav Knowledge, attitude and acceptability for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions: A cross-sectional study Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care copper intrauterine devices (cuiud) dmpa injection lng ius (mirena) long-acting reversible contraceptive (larc) subdermal implant |
| title | Knowledge, attitude and acceptability for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions: A cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Knowledge, attitude and acceptability for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions: A cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge, attitude and acceptability for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions: A cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge, attitude and acceptability for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions: A cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Knowledge, attitude and acceptability for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions: A cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | knowledge attitude and acceptability for long acting reversible contraceptive larc methods among women attending contraception counselling sessions a cross sectional study |
| topic | copper intrauterine devices (cuiud) dmpa injection lng ius (mirena) long-acting reversible contraceptive (larc) subdermal implant |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_780_24 |
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