Nisaporn Wattanasupt. Accessibility and contraceptive use dynamics among married women in Kanchanaburi demographic surveillance system. Doctoral Degree(Demography). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
Accessibility and contraceptive use dynamics among married women in Kanchanaburi demographic surveillance system
Abstract:
This research aimed to examine the effect of contraceptive use dynamics among
married women in the Kanchanaburi Demographic Surveillance System (KDSS). Data on
contraceptive use dynamics is from the contraceptive calendar from the Kachanaburi
project, implemented by the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol
University, Thailand. Accessibility data is derived from geographical information systems
(GIS) techniques.
Family planning accessibility was classified into access to quantity and access to
quality of family planning service. Travel time to the nearest family planning service
facility and density of family planning facilities within 10 kilometers are indicators of
access to quantity of services. The number of contraceptive method available at the
nearest facility is an indicator of access to quality of family planning service.
Contraceptive use dynamics are divided into four categories: 1) postpartum adoption, 2)
contraceptive discontinuation, 3) contraceptive failure, and 4) contraceptive switching.
The hypothesis for this study was that women who have better geographical access to and
better quality of family planning services are more likely to have more logical behavior in
contraceptive use dynamics.
The results indicated that only access to quantity is statistically related to
postpartum adoption. Less travel time and more density of service facilities increase the
odd of postpartum adoption. Increase in travel time increases the odd of contraceptive
discontinuation and increases the odd of contraceptive failure. The density of public
service facilities also decreases the odd of contraceptive failure. Contrary to the
hypothesis, the odd of contraceptive switching increases when travel time to service
location increase. Furthermore, women who have more density of public service facilities
are less likely to switch the method.
Regarding the quality of family planning services, the results show that fewer
methods available increase odd of contraceptive failure.
The policy implications derived from this study are to improve the quality of
family planning supply by increasing number of contraceptive method choices. In the
mean time, the family planning program should further eliminate this geographical
accessibility by alternative channels of family planning service such as mobile clinics or
providing through community health volunteer.