Gambaran Penggunaan Kontrasepsi Pada Wanita Usia Subur (WUS) di Kota Tarakan Kalimantan Utara

Abstract

Family Planning (KB) is an effort to regulate the birth of children, the distance and ideal age of childbirth, and regulate pregnancy through promotion, protection, and assistance by reproductive rights to realize a quality family. The National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN) strives to increase contraceptive use through increasing access to contraceptive services that ensure the availability of contraceptives and expanding access/outreach to family planning services (through family planning extension workers) as well as increasing understanding of reproductive health and knowledge of modern contraception. The prevalence rate of family planning use in North Kalimantan Province is 48.5%. Therefore, this study aims to determine the use of contraceptives among women of childbearing age (WUS) in Tarakan City, North Kalimantan. The method was descriptive and conducted in Tanjung Batu Mamburungan, Tarakan City, North Kalimantan for two months. This research was purposive sampling by the inclusion criteria. The research sample was 42 people. The results showed the majority of respondents aged 31-40 years is 45.2%, 38.1% aged 41-50 years and the least was 16.7% aged 20-30 years. Most WUS knew the type of contraceptive pill of as many as 27 people, the place of contraceptive services at the Puskesmas is 37 people, and the side effects of contraception, namely irregular menstruation as much as 22 people. The reason why WUS did not use contraception was due to ignorance.