الفهرس 
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Abstract
The rewards in family medicine come from knowing patients intimately over time and sharing their trust, respect, and friendship and from the variety of problems encountered in practice that keep the family physician professionally stimulated and challenged. The postpartum period is a convenient time to address family planning; women are particularly motivated to prevent conception just after birth, so the family physician is in good position to provide the necessary
counseling regarding contraception for the new mother. The aim of our study was to assess knowledge, attitude and practice
of family planning in our locality. Assessment of family planning services
may help to find out health problems associated with contraceptive methods
to face them properly and thereby to improve women health. The study included 200 women who were randomly selected from
Kafer El-Sawlmia village , one of the Egyptian rural areas. An interview in
Arabic language through a pre-coded questionnaire was completed by each
one of the women whose age ranged from 18-49 years old and was visiting
FHU for any reason. It was found that causes for non-use were mainly desire to get
pregnant, health concerns, fear of side effects, or lack of knowledge about
contraception methods. In conclusion, Improvement of the use of
contraceptives and female health can be accomplished by awareness-raising
seminars for husbands through use of mass media, activation of the role of
family files, recording and updating the local data, proper counseling both
before and at the time of method selection and helps continuous
communication between family doctor and client.