Nunnapat Peeranunrungsri. Factors associated with the contraceptive used by postpartum women with two or more living children at Amnatcharoen Hospital . Master's Degree(Human Reproduction and Population Planning). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2003.
Factors associated with the contraceptive used by postpartum women with two or more living children at Amnatcharoen Hospital
Abstract:
The present research was a cross-sectional study investigated predisposing
factors, enabling factors, and reinforcing factors, as well as the factors affecting the
postpartum subjects’ choice of birth control after having at least two children at
Amnajcharoen Hospital. The subjects were 290 postpartum mothers who were
recovering within 24 hours after childbirth at the maternity and special maternity wards
of Amnajcharoen Hospital, Amnajcharoen Province, during February 16 to April 30,
2003. Among these subjects, 90 or 31% chose to have permanent birth control, while
196 or 67.6% chose temporary birth control. There were four subjects, or 1.4%, who
did not choose any means of birth control. Data were analyzed using descriptive
statistics of percentage, mean, and standard deviation. In addition, Chi-square test,
Pearson’s Contingency Coefficient , and discriminant analysis were used to determine
the factors affecting choice of birth control.
The study showed that the predisposing factors which were statistically
significantly associated with the choice of birth control of the female subjects with at
least two living children were age, occupation, family income, ideal number of children,
knowledge about birth control, and beliefs in rumors. The reinforcing factor with such
association was support from the husbands. The individual variable with the highest
predicting power affecting the female subjects’ choice of permanent or temporary birth
control was the husbands’ support, which was followed by knowledge about birth
control, age, and beliefs in rumors, all of which accounted for 74.1% of the total
variance.
The findings of this research could be used as a guideline in developing hospital
administration at Amnajcharoen Hospital to choose a more effective means of birth
control methods of postpartum mothers