Estrategia de intervención para mejorar la utilización de métodos anticonceptivos en mujeres adultas de la Comunidad “María Auxiliadora”, del cantón Riobamba.

Abstract

This research aimed to apply the educational intervention on contraception in adult women to raise the level of knowledge and use of contraceptive methods in the Maria Auxiliadora community, Yaruquies parish, Riobamba canton, had a quasi-experimental design, the methods were historical - logical, inductive - deductive, analytical, 65 adult women were studied, the technique was the survey, the instrument the questionnaire, for the analysis of the results of the training the pre-test and post-test were applied; Microsoft® Excel was used; IBM® SPSS®. The descriptive statistics for continuous variables included measures of central tendency, for categorical variables absolute frequencies and percentages were calculated. Inferential statistics included Fisher's Chi square, Anova Test. The evidences found were: the average age was 29 years, 40% finished high school, 38.50% are farmers; and 67.70% are indigenous. 72% have active sex life, they started sex life between 12 and 19 years old, 43% get pregnant without planning; 29% report having aborted, they have 1 to 4 children with a statistically significant association of (p <0.001). After training, 91% know and 92% use contraceptive methods. When comparing age, with instruction and occupation with family planning knowledge, the percentage of dissatisfaction is high with a significance of (p <0.004), concluding that after applying the educational intervention the level of knowledge increased at 91% being satisfactory and their use 92%, so it is recommended to develop community-level educational interventions on family planning.