1Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
Online published on 19 August, 2019.
The contraceptive service is an effort to improve family planning quality. The study aimed to determine the relationship between age, knowledge, education, employment, information provision and spouse support in contraceptive services for reproductive age couples. The study was used quantitative research with cross sectional study approach. This study was conducted at Tamalanrea Public Health Center (Puskesmas). The study population were 3332 couples with samples of 97 reproductive age couples. The data collection was done by distributed questionnaires to the samples. The data was processed with SPSS program and the data was represented in frequency distribution table form. The result indicated there was correlation between family planning contraceptive service in reproductive age couples with age (p=0.009), education level (p=0.046), information provider (p=0.036) and spouse support (p=0.038). Meanwhile, there was no relationship between family planning conceptive service with work (p=0.291) and knowledge (p=0.448). The recommendation for health officers in provide information on contraceptive service usages for reproductive age couples.
Contraceptive, family planning, age, fertile, spouses