The Effect of Structured Counseling towards Knowledge, Attitude, and Participation of Modern Contraceptive among Unmet Need Couples
Abstract: The number of unmet
need for family planning remains high in developing countries, including in
Indonesia. Structured contraceptive counseling potentially increases
contraceptive use effectively maintain its continuity and enhances client’s
satisfaction. Contraceptive counseling had not been properly performed,
therefore this study aimed to analyze structured counseling influence toward
knowledge improvement, attitude and participation at modern contraceptive among
unmet need reproductive-aged couples. This study was conducted on March - June
2015 by using a randomized pretestposttest measurement with control group design.
The subjects were recruited through stratified random sampling method.
Inclusion subjects were further classified into 48 persons for the intervention
group and other 48 persons for the control group. The increase of knowledge and
attitude between intervention and control group was then compared by using
Mann-Whitney U test, and the effect of structured counseling toward
participation of modern contraceptive was analyzed by using multiple logistic
regression. Results showed that there was a significant difference of test
score for knowledge and attitude between the intervention and the control group
(p value < 0.05). Reproductive-aged women are more likely to participate at
modern contraceptive with odds ratio = 6.167 (95% CI= 2,427 - 15,67). Inconclusion,
structured counseling can increase knowledge, attitude, and participation at
modern contraceptive among reproductive-aged couples.
Keywords: Attitude; knowledge;
participation of modern contaceptive; structured counseling; unmet need
Author: Herlina Simanjuntak,
Bony Wiem Lestari, Anita Debora Anwar
Journal Code: jpkesmasgg160020
