Abstract:
Modern contraceptive use is considered worldwide as cost-effective way of improving the health
of women and children, the benefit of which tackles down to their families, community and
country over all. The problem of unmet need for FP at community especially reproductive age
women is very critical but it under reported and eventually remains without
intervention.Moreover, meeting unmet need for family planning would avert unwanted or
mistimed pregnancies and thereby reduce unsafe abortion.Objective: Toassessdemand for
modern contraceptive method and associated factors among currently married womenin Awbare
refugee camp Somali region, Ethiopia. Methods:A cross sectional study was employed among
randomly selected 571 women atAwbare refugee camp Somali region, Ethiopia.Simple random
sampling was used to select the study participant. Pretested,interviewer-administered, structured
questioner was prepared and used to collect the data. Data entry wasmade using the Epi-data
version 3.02 software and cleaned for implausible and missed data values. Then the data was
exported to statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 20 for further analysis.
Exploratory analysis was conducted to find out outliers, missed values and inconsistency.
Descriptive statistic using frequency and percentagewas used.Multivariateregressionswere used
to investigate the predictors.Results:The findings of this study show that 84% of the respondents
have demand for use family planning methods in the future but the remaining 16% of the
respondents are not happy to use family planning methods in the future. The major reason of
respondents who are happy to use family planning is for spacing purpose and the most common
types of family planning methods preferred by the respondents is pills (54%) and injectable
(26%). According to the result obtained from logistic regression model with CI 95 % age of the
respondents, partners occupation, knowledge about contraceptive, and utilization of emergency
contraception has highly significant effect on demand for modern contraceptives. The study
recommends that educating women’s in refugee camp, more use of media, conducting further
research, and expanding health facilities.
