Marzieh Akbar Zadeh, Mahboubeh Khorsandi,
Volume 2, Issue 6 (Spring 1999)
Abstract
In order to accessing the factors which affect the incidence of unwanted pregnancy, a descriptive study was done in the city of arak and Rural area in 1995.From the total numbers of unwanted pregnancy (761) 235 of them was in the villages and 132 cases 56.2% was unwanted. The results revealed that there is a significant relation between socioeconomic status, education and parity (p<0.001). The most common method was contraceptive pills in rural area (53.7) and the most important source of receiving information was health house. There is a significant relation between the duration of using contraceptive and unwanted pregnancy (p<0.001). The most common cause that women avoid to use of contraceptive methods was fear from complication of oral contraceptive 34.5%, irregular use of missing 25.8% and husband disagreement 24.4%.
