Evidence of Contraception use among the Madrasha Teachers in a Selected Area of Dhaka City
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https://doi.org/10.18034/ra.v3i1.292Keywords:
Contraception, Evidence, Knowledge, Method, Temporary and Permanent, Married CoupleAbstract
The population of Bangladesh is increasing in an alarming rate. To control this alarming population contraception use is essential. But contraception use depends on literacy, income, religion, cultural norms and surrounding environment. Most of the Bangladeshi people are illiterate and religious minded. Especially madrasha teachers have wrong notion to use contraception. This study aim to investigate the level of knowledge and the use of contraception among the madrasha teachers in a selected area of Mirpur in Dhaka city. It is a cross sectional study and a total number of 103 male teachers in selected madrasha were interviewed for conducting the research. This study finding shows that 45.63 % respondents age were between 40-47 years, Mean age was 47 years of respondents and S.D is ±8.935, Monthly income of the respondents (51.46%) were in between 6,000-9,000 taka, 58% of respondents family member were 4-6. 28.2% of the respondents has got the information about contraception method from TV, About 70.9% of the madrasha teacher had told that they use any type of contraception method, 74% had good knowledge about contraception method, 60.3% of them had told that they have faced economical problem to use, Among 73 respondents, 81% of them use the method as temporary and 19% of them use it as a permanently method. Among 73 respondents, 41.1% of them had told that they are satisfied by use of contraceptive method. Madrasha teachers are informing about contraception, but they have lack of proper knowledge and economic problem to use different methods.
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