Socio-Cultural and Norms Factors Infl uencing Contraception use among Adult Female in Urban Areas of Dakshina Kannada District

The descriptive study was done to examine the influence of socio-cultural and norms factors on contraceptive use. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the adult female residing in Mangalore. The demographic proforma and the rating scale on socio-cultural and norms factors were used to collect data. The descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that significant relationship existed between Socio-cultural factors and contraceptive use (r=0.208; p=0.011) and there is no significant relationship between norms factors and contraceptive use (r=0.142; p=0.084). The results further indicated that the age of the women, education, religion, type of family and age at marriage are independent of socio- cultural and norms factors. Based on the results of this finding, the study concludes that the contraceptive use is influenced by socio-cultural factors among the urban women.