Unmet need for contraception and associated factors among young married women in Haramaya woreda, Eastern Ethiopia

Abstract

The concept of unmet need points to the gap between women’s reproductive intentions and their contraceptive behavior. Globally about 222 million women have an unmet need for family planning even though utilization of family planning services has increased over the last decades. Young married women have higher unmet need compared to older women. Researches typically generalize contraceptive use among all women however recent studies have highlighted the need to differentiate by age when studying factors that affect contraceptive use, since young women reproductive needs differ from the older women. Studies also neglected and hardly mentioned the importance of examining psychosocial factors on contraceptive use.