Abstract:

Background: Family Planning is considered one of preventive measures of against maternal and child morbidity and mortality, its implication in socio-economic development is emphasized as it helps to prevent pregnancy prior to financial preparation but also limit the number of children for the parents to be able to provide for them. Still there is a high percentage of women of reproductive age, those not in the use of any contraceptive method especially those in rural areas.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the knowledge of married women about family planning, their attitude about family planning as well as if they practice any of them method of FP.

Methodology: The descriptive cross-sectional study was used to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning through structured questionnaires among married women via those to house visit.

Results: Knowledge of family planning was about 89.6%, the large number of women 86.3% respondent that the modern FP methods were good and worthy to be used about 86.3%. The prevalence of knowledge and attitude about modern FP method was high but the practice was relatively low about 60.5%.

Conclusion: In spite of the large percent of prevalence of those women that use modernized FP method of about (60.5%), yet there was relatively high prevalence of about (39.5%) which were not using modern FP methods.