Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Contraceptive (A Case Study of Married Dalit of Gunjanagar VDC Wards No 2 and 3 in Chitwan District)

Abstract

This study on knowledge, attitude and practice of contraceptive is carried out by conducting the simple random sampling method of married Dalit from age 15 to 49 in the year 2009 in Gunjanagar VDC Ward no 2 and 3 of Chitwan district. The survey analyse the knowledge, attitude and practice of contraceptive and socio-economic and demographic characteristic of the study area. There are 125 total respondents of this study where 47 are male and 78 are female. The relation between knowledge, contraceptive use and socio- economic and demographic variable were calculated by simple frequently table, cross tabulation, percentage where needed are done. The overall contraceptive knowledge was found 81.6 percent respondents where 18.4 percent of respondents don't know them. In the case of use of contraceptive 40.2 percent of respondents prefer the contraceptive that is Depo-Provera in future, followed by 37.3 percent of condom and rest of the respondents don't know the preference contraceptive in future. The strong evidence of education ahs strong power to use contraceptive and higher the rate of literacy higher the chance of use of contraceptive. Generally, there is positive relation between no. of living children and contraceptive use it is also concluded that there is positive relationship between education and knowledge , attitude of contraceptive . Out of total respondents 84 percent of respondents know about two information of STDs and HIV/AIDS and rest of the respondents don’t know about them.