دراسة لمعرفة مدى وعي المجتمع الليبي بأهمية التنظيم الأسري

Abstract EN

Family planning is the civilized behaviour that provides the couple with the appropriate option to control when to start having children, how many children want to have, and the interval between them; according to their circumstances, ability and within the health framework that focuses on the health of mother and child together.

The study aimed to identify the extent of the Libyan society’s awareness about the importance of family planning.

Where studied the most important methods of family planning and how to apply it, with highlighting the importance of the family in society.

The descriptive approach was used for its suitability to the nature of the phenomenon studied.

The study population represents a random sample of the total of 100 women, which attending Al-Jameel Hospital, "Gynecology and Obstetrics Department"; the percentage was used within the statistical methods for processing the questionnaire data, using the statistical packages (SPSS) program.

The study concluded that, there is no awareness about the importance of family planning in Libyan society; where the increase in the number of children and the failure to follow family planning methods negatively affects the family economically and socially.

In addition, the delivery type effects on the family planning; as it was found that the probability repeat pregnancy for natural delivery cases is more than cesarean delivery cases.

In addition to the fact that most women use common contraceptive methods because, they do not have enough information about other methods that may be more suitable for them than others.

The study recommends raising health awareness and alerting community members about the importance of family planning and the problems resulting from not apply it.

Conducting scientific forums, especially for women, to clarify the importance of family planning to their health and children's health, and give the sufficient information about different contraceptives; their advantages, disadvantages, mechanism of action and the appropriate interval between the first child and the second pregnancy.

The study suggested that, allocating consultants in the family planning and distributing them to primary health care centres.