Decision making autonomy of women on contraceptive use and its factors in Dalocha woreda, silte zone southern Ethiopia

Abstract

Summary Background: Majority of women, Who Live in developing country, have little health care decision making and contraceptive use autonomy. Even if it has improvement, women’s independence and autonomy, with respect to health-related decision-making, may be restricted by many factors and a little investigation has done to identify the factors. Objective: to assess the autonomy of women in decision making on contraceptive use and its factors in Dolucha wereda, silte zone Method: A community based analytic study has been used to assessing the autonomy of women in decision making on contraceptive use and its factors in Dolucha woreda of site zone. In which systematic random sampling technique was used. Result: In this study, 264 respondent mothers who were in reproductive age group from which 173(65.5%) of respondent mothers are autonomous on decision making on contraceptive use. most of contraceptive use 155(58.7%) decision were done together followed by her husband 91(34.5%) which include nonuser decision and by herself 18(6.8%). Binary logistic regression has revealed that religion, woman attending school, husband’s educational status, and current employment respondent has association with decision making autonomy women on contraceptive use. When multivariable logistic regression analysis was done for those factor, the association are not significant. Conclusion: The study shows that participant’s mothers are fairly autonomous on decision making on contraceptive use despite her involvement alone is not significant compare to her husband involvement alone. Religion, woman attending school, husband’s educational status, and current employment of respondents has significance but not has significant association in multivariable logistic regression analysis.