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Background: India was the rst country in the world to have launched a National Programme for Family Planning in 1951. Acco. to NFHS 4 report, the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) among currently married women age 15-49 is 65 percent, only a slight decrease from NFHS-3 in Maharashtra. Although it is above the expected rate of 60% to have a stable population, still there is no reliable information available in this particular area about contraceptive prevalence. To nd Objective: out the prevalence of contraceptive use and its determinants among the urban slum population A community-based cross-sectional study was Materials and Methods: conducted in urban eld practice area of a govt medical college, Maharashtra, India, amongst married women aged between 15 and 49 years. Information was collected on a comprehensive, predesigned, pretested, and semi- structured proforma after taking verbal consent. The data was entered in Microsoft excel spreadsheet and was analysed using SPSS software version 20 and Chi Square test was applied wherever necessary. Results: Knowledge about contraceptive methods amongst study participants (99.5%) was almost universal. Only 43.5% women received knowledge about contraception from Hospital staff. Only 29.8 % (57) women were using any temporary method of contraception at the time of study.40.3% (77) women were using permanent methods. Total 18.8 % women had done MTP for unwanted pregnancy. Tho Conclusion: ugh knowledge regarding modern contraceptive methods and emergency contraception was high their usage was very low. Most of contraceptive methods used only by female. Bias for Male child also play major role in choice and usage of contraception.
Bhaisare et al. (Mon,) studied this question.