Background: Contraceptive use is a central element of quality care in the provision of family planning services and an important dimension of women’s reproductive rights. To increase contraceptive coverage, contraceptive use programs should offer a variety of safe, effective, acceptable and affordable.
Objective: The main objective of this study is to assess the patterns and determinants of contraceptive method use among females of reproductive age in Kelala town, Northern Ethiopia.
Methods: A cross-sectional study with convenience sampling technique was employed. Samples of 267 females of
reproductive age were interviewed by using structured questionnaire. Three nurse interviewers were selected and trained from Kelala health center for data collection. Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 16.0 for windows.
Results: - From a total of 267women included in the study, 190(71.20%) of them were contraceptive users while 77(28.84%) were non-users. Injectable contraceptive methods were preferred by majority of women 115(43.07%) followed by pills 31(11.61%) But intra uterine device were used by only few women 13(4.90%). Age, marital status, educational status, occupation, number of living children, frequency of pregnancy, duration of next pregnancy, source of information, knowledge on contraception were found to have significant association with contraception use.
Conclusion: - This study addressed that majority of mothers in the study area are using injectable contraceptive methods and the least used was intra uterine device and the permanent contraceptive methods like female and male sterilization was not known and not practiced.