Abstract:
Background: Post abortion family planning is one of the recommended preventive
services to reduce post abortion morbidity and mortality. The majority of abortions occur
due to unintended pregnancies, which is a result of the non-use of family planning
methods. However, post-abortion family planning utilization is still low in Ethiopia.
Objective: To assess utilization of post abortion family planning and associated factors
among women seeking abortion service at health facility of Zuway Dugda woreda, East
Shewa Ethiopia, 2021.
Method: Institutional based cross- sectional study was conducted among a total of 402
women who came to abortion service. Pre- tested interview structured questionnaire was
used to collect the data .Systematic random sampling technique was used to select the
study participants. Data entry and cleaning were done with Epii data then was exported to
SPSS software for analysis. Binary and multiple logistic regressions were applied to see
the association between post abortion family planning utilization with independent
variables. Odds ratio and 95% Confidence Interval (CI) were used to measure the
strength of associations. The results were considered statistically significant at p value P
<0.05 for multiple regressions.
RESULT: Overall post-abortion contraceptive utilization in this study was 70.1 %( CI:
65.4, 74.6). Single women (AOR, 4.0 95% CI (1.8-8)), above secondary educational level
(AOR, 3.7; 95% CI (1.4, 9.7)), public health institutions ((AOR, 3.0 95% CI (1.5, 6.1)),
having previous information about family planning(AOR 2.1 95% CI (1.2-3.9)), ever
used contraceptives (AOR 5.4, 95% CI (2.9-9.9)), and received post abortion family
planning counseling (AOR 5.7 95% CI (3.1-10.4)) were significantly associated with post
abortion family planning utilization.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: Post abortion family planning
utilization was high as compared to other studies. Marital status, educational level,
owner of the facility, information access, ever used family planning and PAFP
counseling was the significant factors to PAFP utilization. Greater emphasis should
be given to providing post abortion contraceptive counseling to increase utilization
of post abortion contraceptive use.
Keywords: post abortion, contraceptives utilization, women, Ethiopia