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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Open Science Publishers LLP</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">15</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE AMONG WOMEN OF CHILD BEARING AGE TOWARDS CONTRACEPTIVE DRUG UTILIZATION IN ADAMA (KEBELE 12)&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kumssa</surname><given-names>Esubalew</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kahaliw</surname><given-names>Wubayehu</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ergetie</surname><given-names>Zeryawekal</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>25</day><month>06</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>03</volume><issue>10</issue><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>8</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Population growth is a major concern in developing countries in view of its impact on broader socio-economic development. In Ethiopia, contraceptive prevalence rate is 4.1-39 Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice among women of childbearing age towards contraceptive drug utilization in Adama (kebele 12) Materials and methods: A community based descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on a target population of all women age 15 to 49 years and reside for six months in Adama town (Kebele 12). Data collection was acomplished by interviewing using structured questionnaires. 361 women were interviewed during the data collection period who had been living in Adama town for more than 6 months. The data obtained was analyzed using Microsoft office excel 2007. Results: Educational level of 329(90.9%) of the interviewed population attendees varies from Can read and write to higher education, while 32(8.8%) of them were illiterate. Married women accounts 289(80.1%) and the unmarried accounts 72(19.9%). Out of 361 interviewed women in childbearing ages, 347(96.2%) of them knew about family planning method. The majority of the women in childbearing ages interviewed showed that 330(94.2%) of them were experienced to use contraception methods. Conclusion: According to the result of this study, the majority of the respondents had good knowledge attitude and practice towards contraception drug utilization. Some of the respondents thought the major factor affecting the utilization of family planning service was inadequate information and education towards family planning service. Long distance of health facility from their home and poor relationship between service provider and consumer are also additional factors affecting contraceptive drug utilization program.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Contraception</kwd><kwd> Women in child bearing age</kwd><kwd> family planning</kwd><kwd> combined pill</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
