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- Title
The Impact of Contraceptive use on Women Health: A Study of Rural Area, Minia, Egypt.
- Authors
Hassan, Ebtesam Esmail; Eltomy, Ekhlass M.; Abuzeid Khalefa, Mona
- Abstract
Background: Women's health concerns are associated with the female reproductive system, breast and other physiological structures. Contraception was a deliberate and willful selection of contraceptive methods. In Egypt, there is an increasing trend of using contraception to regulate births due to recent awareness of contraception. However; having insufficient knowledge about use of contraceptives would be more risky and its prolonged use sometimes results in various health problems. Aim was to reveal the prevalence of contraception use in rural area of Minia governorate and study the most common health problems among user as compared to non-users. Methodology: cross sectional community based study conducted among 564 rural married women in reproductive age during the period from November 2018 to May 2019. Results: Nearly 69.1% of women were currently using a contraceptive method, 142 (25.2%) never previously use contraception and 32 (5.7%) discontinued. There were significant increase of health problem among currently contraception user a compared to currently non user, majority (90.3%) of user complain menstrual irregularities compared to 24.1% of non-user (p=0.003* RR=29.1), 64.1% had nausea compared to 28.1% among non-user with RR =6.3, hypertension (RR=5.5) Headache (RR=2.6) Heart burn (RR=3.3) had significant increased relative risk. Conclusion: The present study illustrates that contraceptive methods have important health impacts. Health states decrease the effectiveness of any method. Awareness should be enhanced by health education using mass media and counseling, male contraceptives should be introduced, medical free camps and contraceptive availability.
- Subjects
EGYPT; CONTRACEPTION; HYPERTENSION; MENSTRUATION disorders; RURAL conditions; CROSS-sectional method; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HEADACHE; CONTRACEPTIVE drugs; WOMEN'S health
- Publication
Medico-Legal Update, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 3, p221
- ISSN
0971-720X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37506/mlu.v21i3.2987