A large population is a problem, the results of the population census show that the population in Indonesia reached 237.641.326 people with a Population Growth Rate of 1,49 percent. One of the efforts to implement the family planning program listed in the Medium-Term Development Plan is to increase the use of long-term contraceptive methods, one of which is the IUD. The use of IUDs at the Pantoloan Community Health Center was the lowest in 12 Community Health Center in Palu. From the data of the last 3 years, there have been fluctuations of 17 acceptors in 2013, 34 acceptors in 2014 and 30 acceptors in 2015. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between knowledge, attitudes, husband's support and attitudes of health officers on the contraceptive selection of IUD by mothers who are the family planning acceptors in the Pantoloan Community Health Center. The type of this research was a quantitative study with a Cross-Sectional approach. The total population was 649 and the sample was 106 people. Sampling technique used was a proportional stratified random sampling. Statistical analysis was performed using Chi-Square test and the variable that had a relationship with the contraceptive selection of IUD was the knowledge (ρ = 0,038), maternal attitude (ρ = 0,015), husband's support (ρ = 0,010). Whereas the attitude of health officers (ρ = 0.443) had no relationship with the contraceptive selection of IUD. It was expected that the health officers and health cadres conducted many counseling to increase the knowledge.
Today, the use of IUD is still low, approximately 85 million women worldwide have used the IUD where the 70% (59 million) of them are found in China [
Based on the Health Office of Palu in 2015, the number of couples of reproductive ages in Palu was 61.133 people, while
the achievements of active acceptors in 2015 in Palu were 32,682 people (53.5%), new acceptors were 19,862 (32.5%) and those who did not use contraception were 8,589 people (14.04%). The type of contraceptive method mostly used was injection of 29.
The use of IUD (Intrauterine Device) can be influenced by several factors, namely knowledge, attitude, husband support and attitudes of health officers. Knowledge concerning family planning is very important for acceptors to choose contraceptives that will be used because knowledge is a very important domain in shaping a person's behavior [
Pantoloan Community Health Center is a health center in Palu. Based on the data obtained, the Pantoloan community health center has the lowest proportion of IUD acceptors compared to the other community health centers, which is 17,3% with 2.266 couples of reproductive age. The results of a preliminary study conducted by researchers at the Pantoloan Community Health Center, the use of IUD as long-term contraception without sterilization experiences fluctuations. Fructuations in 2013 were 17 acceptors, in 2014 were 34 acceptors and in 2015 were 30 acceptors of the existing numbers of couple of reproductive age. This study wants to find out the factors associated with the selection of IUD (intrauterine device) on mothers who are family planning acceptors in the Working Area of Pantoloan Community Health Center in North Palu.
The type of this research is quantitative research with a cross-sectional approach, conducted from April 3 to May 2, 2017. The research was conducted in the working area of the Pantoloan Community Health Center in North Palu. The population of the study was 649 people and the sample was 106 respondents which were selected using Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling.
Operational Definition and Objective Criteria
Knowledge, is the ability of respondents to correctly answer questions about IUDs with objective criteria of lacking and good.
Maternal attitude, is the response of the active family planning acceptors on IUD with objective criteria of negative and positive.
Husband's support, is the assistance provided by the partners in the use of IUD contraceptive methods with objective criteria of not supportive and supportive
Attitude of health officers, is the response of active family planning acceptors to the health officers in the working area of the Pantoloan Community Health Center in North Palu with objective criteria of negative and positive.
Data collection
Primary data is direct data obtained from respondents. This data was collected using a questionnaire. Questionnaire is a method of collecting data on a problem that generally involves many public interests. It was done by distributing a list of questions in a form [
Secondary data is not obtained directly from the respondent but the data is obtained from the agency related to the research that has been recorded.
Relationship Between Knowledge and Contraceptive Selection of IUD
The relationship between knowledge and contraceptive selection of IUD that was analyzed using the Chi-Square test in a 2x2 contingency table is shown in the following table 1.
Table1. The Relationship between Knowledge and Contraceptive Selection of IUD on Mothers who are the Family Planning Acceptors in Pantoloan Community Health Center Area
In table 1, showed that from the 48 respondents who had less knowledge, respondents were more likely not to used IUD of 47 respondents (97.9%) compared to those who used the IUD which was 1 respondent (2.1%). From the 58 respondents who had good knowledge, more respondents did not use the IUD as many as 50 respondents (86.2%) compared to those who used the IUD as many as 8 respondents (13.8%). The chi-square test results showed ρ= 0.038, it meant that there was a relationship between the knowledge and the use of IUDs on mothers who were the family planning acceptors in the Working Area of Pantoloan Community Health Center, North Palu.
Relationship Between Maternal Attitude and Contraceptive Selection of IUD
The relationship between the maternal attitude with the contraceptive selection of IUD which was analyzed using the Chi-Square test in the 2x2 contingency table is shown in the following table 2.
Table2. Relationship Between Maternal Attitudes and Contraceptive Selection of IUD in Mothers who were the Family Planning Acceptors in Pantoloan Community Health Center Area
1%) compared to those who used the IUD as many as 1 respondent (19%) From the 52 respondents who had a positive attitude, more respondents did not use the IUD as many as 44 respondents (846%) compared to those who used the IUD as many as 8 respondents (154%) The results of the chi-square test showed ρ= 0015, it meant that there was a relationship between the maternal attitudes and the use of IUDs on mother who were the family planning acceptors in the Working Area of Pantoloan Community Health Center, North Palu
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Negative | 53 | 98.1 | 1 | 1.9 | 54 | 100 | 0.015 |
Positive | 44 | 84.6 | 8 | 15.4 | 52 | 100 | |
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97 | 91.5 | 9 | 8.5 | 106 | 100 |
Relationship Between Husband's Support and Contraceptive Selection of IUD
The relationship between husband's support and the contraceptive selection of IUD which was analyzed using the Chi-Square test in the 2x2 contingency table is shown in the following table.
Table 3. The Relationship between Husband's Support and Contraceptive Selection of IUD on Mothers Who were the Family Planning Acceptors in Pantoloan Community Health Center Area
In table 3, it showed that from 59 respondents who had not supportive husbands, more respondents did not use IUD as many as 58 respondents (98.3%) compared with those who used IUD as many as 1 respondent (1.7%). From the 47 respondents who had supportive husbands, more respondents did not use the IUD as many as 39 respondents (83%) compared to those who used the IUD as many as 8 respondents (17%). The results of the chi-square test showed ρ= 0.010, it meant that there was a relationship between the husband's support and the use of IUDs on mothers who were the family planning acceptors in the Working Area of Pantoloan Community Health Center, North Palu.
Relationship Between Attitudes of Health Officers and Contraceptive Selection of IUD
The relationship between the attitudes of the health officers and the contraceptive selection of IUD which was analyzed using the Chi-Square test in the 2x2 contingency table is shown in the following table 3.
Table 4. The Relationship between the Attitudes of Health Officers and Contraceptive Selection of IUD on Mothers who were the family planning acceptors in in Pantoloan Community Health Center Area
3%) compared to those who used the IUD as many as 1 respondent (37%) From 79 respondents who considered that the attitude of the health officers was positive, more respondents did not use the IUD as many as 71 respondents (899%) compared to those who used the IUD as many as 8 respondents (101%) The results of the statistical test of chi square showed ρ= 0443, it meant that there was no relationship between the attitudes of health officers and the use of IUDs on mothers who were the family planning acceptors in the Working Area of Pantoloan Community Health Center, North Palu
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Negative | 26 | 96.3 | 1 | 3.7 | 27 | 100 | 0.443 |
Positive | 71 | 89.9 | 8 | 10.1 | 79 | 100 | |
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97 | 91.5 | 9 | 8.5 | 106 | 100 |
Relationship between Economic Status and the Use of MKJP
The results of the statistical tests between knowledge and contraceptive selection of IUD showed that there was a relationship between knowledge and contraceptive selection of IUD with a value of ρ=0.038. It meant that knowledge was a factor that could influence the contraceptive selection of IUD. This was because mothers who lacked knowledge about IUDs would make them reluctant to use the IUD. This was also influenced by age and education factors because the older and the higher the education of a person, it would be easier for someone to get the right information about the IUD. On the contrary, the lower the education of a person, it would make them difficult to obtain information [
This research was in line with the research conducted by Putri and Rahmawati (20
The education level of the respondents could affect one's knowledge, but in this study, education was the reason for the lack of knowledge. However, it was because the respondents were lack of clearer information. In line with the research conducted by Fitriani [
The Relationship Between Maternal Attitude and Contraceptive Selection of IUD
The results of the statistical test showed the value of ρ=0.015, this result indicated that there was a relationship between the maternal attitude and the contraceptive selection of IUD. This research was in line with the research conducted by Susanti [
Research conducted by Gomez et al., [
Information developed in the community about IUD could be controlled properly by the health officers so that people no longer hear the information from fellow acceptors but they knew directly from the health officers. The management could be done in various ways, one of which was by conducting two-way communication or discussion to the acceptors before and after using the contraception.
Relationship between Husband's Support and Contraceptive Selection of IUD
Husband is the first and leading person in giving help to the wife before the other party gives suggestion to choose the contraceptive method. The role of a husband in using contraception is to support in choosing contraception and giving wife freedom to use contraception [
The results of the chi-square test analysis obtained ρ = 0.006 <alpha value = 0,05, this meant that there was a relationship between husband's support with the contraceptive selection of IUD. Husband's decision to allow his wife to use the contraception was an important guideline for his wife. If the husband did not allow them, only a few wives dared to use the contraception [
This study was in line with the research conducted by Lidano, Runkat and Manueke [
Cooperation between husband and wife was needed in the contraceptive selection that would be used by the wife. Husbands played a major role in supporting contraceptive use. The wrong understanding from the husband about contraception could affect acceptors whether to use the contraception or not. Therefore, an activity to improve the understanding should be carried out for the husband and not only for the acceptors.
Relationship Between Attitudes of Health Officers and Contraceptive Selection of IUD
The statistical test results of the relationship between the attitude of health officers and the contraceptive selection of IUD showed ρ = 0.443> α = 0.05, this meant that there was no correlation between the attitude of the health officers with the contraceptive selection of IUD at the Pantoloan Community Health Center, North Palu.
Every health officer must be able to carry out excellent service such as giving patients what they really need. Excellent service could only be achieved through implementation which included the components of practice which were discipline, initiative, responsive, communicative and cooperative with patients [
This study was not in line with the research conducted by Pitriani [
The conclusion of this study was that there was a relationship between knowledge, maternal attitudes and husband's support with the contraceptive selection of IUD on mothers who were the family planning acceptors in the Working Area of Pantoloan Community Health Center, North Palu. Whereas for the variable of the attitude of health officers, there was no relationship between the attitudes of health officers with the contraceptive selection of IUD on mothers who were the family planning acceptors in the Working Area of Pantoloan Community Health Center, North Palu. It was expected that socialization about family planning would be conducted frequently to increase the knowledge so that people knew more about contraception and people's attitudes toward contraceptive method could change.
Acknowledgement
The authors grateful to all of those whom have had pleasure participated and supported this research
Conflict Of Interest
The authors declare no potential conflict of interest in this articles publication