Abstract:
Family planning is important in the community as it gives an opportunity for the individual to make decision on the number of children they wish to have, but also it prevent unintended pregnancy which lead to abortion especially unsafe abortion. For those women who are using family planning they have a chance to restore their health wellbeing. Economically it’s also benefiting the couple as they can make plans of their life depending with the number of children they have or they wish to have.
The study approach was sequential mixed study which involved both quantitative and qualitative. The sample size quantitatively was determined by using Yamane formula and the sample size obtained was 396. On the other part of qualitative, the data were collected until saturation from key informants.
Quantitative data were analysed by assistance of Stata and that the descriptive statistics finding were presented in percentage, charts and tables. Logistic regression used in analysis so as to give out inferential statistics findings, The qualitative data were analysed with the assistance of Atlas ti ,according to the views from the key informant’s especially health care providers and DRCHCO, they said education level and living in urban makes women to be aware on LARC services as also they proved that myths and misconceptions on the LARC, religious, availability of the services and husband decision on FP use have been obstacles for the women to use Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive methods.
The study recommends efforts from different stakeholders and the Government to put much emphasis on ensuring that the health education on family planning especially LARC is reaching the community and male involvement it’s also a key
Knowledge and awareness is the source of women and the community in large to change their behavior towards the use of long acting Contraceptive methods and avoid them from unwanted pregnancy which could lead to unsafe abortion and death.
