@article{Isiko_Kato_Okumu_Babita_Kumakech_Lakisa_Isabirye_Nambuba_2021, place={Africa}, title={Improving Utilisation and awareness of Family Planning services in Adults of Reproductive age through Community Sensitization in Police Wing Village, Jinja District.}, volume={2}, url={https://sjhresearchafrica.org/index.php/public-html/article/view/43}, DOI={10.51168/sjhrafrica.v2i6.43}, abstractNote={<p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><strong><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">Background</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">Family planning refers to a conscious effort by a couple to space the number of children<strong><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif;"> </span></strong>they have through the use of contraceptive methods. According to WHO, an estimated 225 million women in developing countries, 24.2% of women of reproductive age have an unmet need for contraception. However, contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa is low at only 21%. The total fertility rate remains high for many countries in the region (4.6 in Kenya and Rwanda, 5.4 in Tanzania, 6.2 in Uganda, and 6.4 for Burundi).</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><strong><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">Methodology</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">This was a community-based project implementation on increasing awareness and<strong><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif;"> </span></strong>utilization of family planning methods in Police Wing village, Jinja district. Consent was gotten from the VHT, LC1, and DHO before mobilizing people to gather at the VHT’s home and her neighbor’s compound where we carried out the different educational sessions. Different team members got different roles to play as regards the health education session.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">One week later, we evaluated the progress of our project implementation through the administration of questionnaires to the same people we health educated. The questionnaire assessed the level of utilization, awareness, myths, misconception, and demography of the participants. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><strong><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">Results</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">28% had heard about at least three family planning methods and 24.1% had at one time used family planning while 75.9% of the participants admitted not to have used it. The post-session assessment showed an increase from 28% to 93% in knowledge regarding the available methods of FP and an increase in the utilization of FP from 28% to 42%.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><strong><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">Conclusion and recommendations </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: ’Arial’,sans-serif; color: #0e101a;">Addressing the myths and misconceptions about FP by exposing them as a fallacy would help increase the uptake as evidenced by the will of the community to take up the different methods. Organize frequent health talks about FP in the community.</span></p>}, number={6}, journal={Student’s Journal of Health Research Africa}, author={Isiko, Henry Rodgers and Kato, Charles and Okumu, Jeremiah and Babita, Mariam and Kumakech, Jacob and Lakisa, Mercy Faith and Isabirye, Hamza and Nambuba, Shanny}, year={2021}, month={Jun.}, pages={11} }