Abstract

To study the knowledge regarding prevention and management of complications of Cu-T insertion among rural women and to determine the relationship between knowledge and the selected factors (age. religion. educational qualification, occupation. type of family, income, number of children, duration of copper-t insertion) 100 rural women attending PHC’s of Kashmir were investigated in the present study. It was found that majority of women (90%) were Muslims, most of the of the study subjects (78%) were house wives, more than half (54%) were in the age group of 31-40 years, (45%) belonged to nuclear family, (40%) of women were having two children ,(39%) women were in the monthly income group between Rs 10001-15000. (29%) were having 1-2 years of Cu-T insertion, (35%) women had primary education, maximum number of women with Cu-T insertion complications (12%), were having excessive vaginal discharge and minimum number of women (2%), reported nausea and vomiting and only (1%) of women’s husband got hurt during sexual intercourse. Maximum subjects (70%) had inadequate knowledge regarding prevention and management of complications of Cu-T insertion. The mean of knowledge score was 20.8 (maximum score 34) and Standard deviation was found to be 6.96 depicting heterogeneity in the knowledge score of study subjects. There was a significant relationship between knowledge and educational but there was no significant relationship between knowledge and factors like age, religion, occupation, type of family, income, number of children, duration of Cu-T insertion at 0.05 levels. The study findings indicate that there is lack of knowledge among women regarding prevention and management of complications of Cu- insertion and hence there is need to educate and to give information to women regarding prevention and management of complications of Cu- insertion.