Ozcan F.2024-07-222024-07-22199700219320http://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/20637Family planning practices were reported by 491 married women, aged 15-49, who applied to the Family Planning Centre in Isparta, Turkey. Eighty-four percent of the women used contraception, the IUD being used most frequently. Almost half of the women married before age 18 years.; This study determines family planning practices among a sample of urban women who attended a maternal-child health/family planning center in Isparta, Turkey. Data were obtained from 491 married women, 15-49 years old, who attended the only Mother and Child Care and Family Planning Center in Isparta during May-November 1994. All women in the sample were Muslim, and 79.4% were 20-34 years old. 10% were illiterate, and 66% had a primary education. 10% had completed high school. 4% had a university education. Over 90% were housewives. 6% were blue collar workers. 31% had only 1 child. 8% had no children. 84% of women used a method of contraception. 55.6% relied on the IUD, 10.4% relied on the condom, 15% relied on withdrawal, 1.6% used oral contraceptives, and 1.4% relied on breast feeding. 15.9% were noncontraceptors. The family planning center encouraged use of methods with a low failure rate. Among women who married at age 15 or younger, 31.8% were uneducated and 68.2% had a primary education. Among women married at aged 16-18 years, 16.6% of contraceptors were uneducated, 71.7% were women with primary schooling, 5.4% had secondary schooling, and 2.0% had a university degree. 10.4% of contraceptors were uneducated women. 68.2% of contraceptors were primary educated women. 7% of contraceptors had a secondary school education, and 4% had a university degree. Contraceptive usage in Isparta is an estimated 63%, which is higher than in the rest of Turkey. The high contraceptive use is attributed to easy access to child and maternal health care and family planning.EnglishAdolescentAdultAge FactorsContraceptionFamily Planning ServicesFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansMarriageMiddle AgedQuestionnairesTurkeyUrban PopulationWomenTurkeyAsiaContraceptionContraceptive UsageCurrently Married--womenDemographic FactorsDeveloping CountriesFamily PlanningFamily Planning SurveysMarital StatusMediterranean CountriesNuptialityPopulationPopulation CharacteristicsResearch ReportTurkeyUrban Population--womenWestern Asiaoral contraceptive agentfamily planningmarried womenadolescentadultarticlecondomcontraceptionfamily planningfemalehumanhuman experimentintrauterine contraceptive devicemarriagenormal humanpopulation researchquestionnaireturkey (republic)Article10.1017/S0021932097005099