Abstract:
Background- Family planning is central to gender equality and women’s empowerment and it
is a key factor in reducing poverty. Implanon is one of Long acting family planning methods
provide uninterrupted protection to women for 3 years and by far the most effective and very
safe. When it was removed, return to fertility is prompt.
Objective- To assess the prevalence and associated factor of Implanon utilization among
women of family planning users in Debre Birhan city administration, North Shewa, Amhara
region, Ethiopia 2020.
Method- A community based cross sectional study design was conducted by multi stage
sampling technique with sample size of 542. Study subjects selected by systematic random
sampling. In the data collection process ten data collectors and two supervisors were recruited
The data was entered using Epidata version 3.1 and analysis was done by using SPSS version 25.
Coding, entry and statistical analysis were done. Strength of association was measured using
odds ratio and 95% CI. Variables that have a significant association at p-value ≤0.25 in the
bivariate logistic regression model were fitted to a multivariate logistic regression model.
Result-Of all of women, 121 (22.3%) utilize Implanon. Family was the primary source of
information on Implanon as mentioned by 163 (30.1%) of the respondents. Age of the women,
marital status, education status, occupation and monthly income were associated with current use
of Implanon. Based on the result of multivariable analysis those were married [AOR: 20.19(6.38,
63.86)], occupation being housewife [AOR: 13.83(1.28, 48.7)], education status of the women
elementary school [AOR: 0.10(0.012, 0.85)], those who discussed with their partner [AOR:
3.29(1.45, 7.46)], have one to two children [AOR: 3.72(0.98, 14.16)] had significant association
with utilization of Implanon.
Conclusion and recommendation- In this study, the magnitude of the utilization of
Implanon among women of family planning users was 22.3%. Based on the results there is a
need to intervene the low utilizations of Implanon family planning methods to increase the
coverage
