Abstract:
Background: Young and unmarried women constitute a high-risk group for unplanned pregnancies and unsafe Abortions. It has been estimated that widespread use of emergency contraception may significantly reduce Abortion-related morbidity and mortality.
Objective: The aim of this research was to assess Knowledge and attitude of Contraceptives use for prevention of unwanted pregnancy among female high school students in Dabat northwest Gondar, Ethiopia.
Methods: A Cross sectional study was conducted and the data was collected using standardized questionnaire with a total of 1370 sample size. Was collected our data by using simple random sampling technique and the result was analyzed by using SPSS version 20 software package.
Result: According to this study 182 (55.2%) of respondents has a good knowledge about contraceptive and 148 (44.8%) have poor knowledge about contraceptive and also 92 (27.9%) have positive attitude towards the use of contraceptive and most of the participants 205 (62.1%) preferred inject able contraceptive. The result was the same for most of our independent variables this shows as there is no association between the dependant and independent variables.
Conclusion and recommendation: In generally most of Dabat district high school students have good knowledge and attitude about the use of contraceptive for prevention of unwanted pregnancy but for more good result the school administration, the government and the media is better to focus on this issues.
