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Abstract
- Introduction: unmet need for family planning refers to women not using any form of family planning despite they don’t want to get pregnant. Globally, about 12% of married or in-union women wereestimated to have had an unmet need for family planning in 2015. - Aim of the study:investigating the problem of unmet need for family planning among married women in Awish El-Hagar village, Mansoura district, Dakahlia governorate. The specific objectives were to estimate the magnitude of unmet need for family planning among targeted women, to explore common reasons for unmet need for family planning and to find out factors associated with it. - Subjects and methods:A community-based crosssectional study was carried out involving a sample of 394 married women in their reproductive age (15-49 years) residing Awish El-Hagar village during the period from 1st November 2015 to 30th April 2016 who were selected using a systematic random sampling technique through a house to house survey. -Results:unmet need for family planning represented 11.2% of the studied married women. Regarding reasons for unmet need, about 27.3% of them reported infrequent sex, 25% fear of side effects of methods while husband disapproval was reported by 15.9% of them. - Conclusion:a considerable proportion of Egyptian women still have an unmet need for family planning and need to be addressed by more effective family planning programs.