Family Planning

Abstract

In Pakistan the total fertility rate is 4.5 which is too high and the main reason forthis is the low contraceptive prevalence rate of only 28%. A woman’s ability to space and limither pregnancies has a direct impact on her health and as well as on the outcome of eachpregnancy”. The population of Pakistan represents 2.56% of the world’s total population whichmean that every 39th person of the world is resident of Pakistan. Objectives: To highlight thefactors affecting male’s decision making regarding family planning in district Buner KPK. StudyDesign: A cross sectional study. Setting: District Buner, KPK. Period: March, 2015 and July,2015. Methods: Stratified simple random sampling was performed for collecting data. Samplesize of 210 was collected from two Union Councils of Buner. Outcome variable was husband’sdecision making regarding family planning. Researcher administered questionnaire was usedfor data collection. Results: Husband’s decision making regarding family planning was mainlyeffected desire for more children, 68.5% of the respondents were male decision maker whohad desire for more children. Family structure also influence the decision maker’s decision asin nuclear families 90.7% were decision maker were from nuclear family. Religious perceptionand side effects was contributing to family planning decision making. Conclusion: The studyshowed that 71.9% of male and 6.9% female take the decision of family planning. The studyresults showed that desire for more children, lack of information, family structure, and fear ofside effects and perception of people that family planning is against Islam played an importantrole in decision making regarding family planning.