This report presented results of a retrospective study that assessed the role of the community in women’s contraceptive decisions. Participants were 1.469 women who has used and/or were using combined oral contraceptives (COCs). The results showed that FP collaborators have greatest role in advising them to use COCs, followed by the health care workers, their husbands and relatives. However, their husbands and relatives play an important role in their discontinuation of the methods. IN order to improve the quality of counseling for COC users, more attention need to be paid for counseling to their husbands and families.
Reproduction ; Contraception