ANALYSIS OF MALE PARTICIPATION IN CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE IN INDRALAYA MULYA DISTRICT KECAMATAN INDRALAYA OGAN ILIR REGENCY IN YEAR 2011

Abstract

Background : Indonesia has 216,9 million number of people with 1,36% population growth rate. In order to restrict this rapid population increasing, Governmalet had done the construction oriented to the justice and gender equality in Family planning and Reproductive Health. One of the gender equality in family planning was male participation in contraceptive usage. But, nowadays the gender equality in Indonesia is still dominated by women. Based on the data of UPTB KB Monthly Report Kecamatan Indralaya, male participation in contraceptive usage in Kelurahan Indralaya Mulya was still bad. Because of that, this research aimed to know the male participation in contraceptive usage.

Method : Used analytic survey method with cross sectional study design. Sample in this research was male who have wife aged 15-49 years old which amounts to 82 people. The sampling technique used simple random sampling. Data analysis technique used univariate and bivariate with statistic test used Chi Square test.

Result : Showed that from 7 independent variables, 5 variables were connected to male participation in family planning, education (p_value = 0,001), knowledge (p_value = 0,014), family planning services access (p_value = 0,010), male family planning quality service (p_value = 0,030) and male family planning image (acceptance) (p_value = 0,008).

Conclusion : Variables related to male participation in family planning are education, knowledge, family planning services access, male family planning quality service and male family planning image (acceptance) whereas variables which are not related are age and number of children.

Keywords : Male participation in contraceptive usage, Male family planning