EFFECT OF CONTRACEPTIVES AMONG WOMEN IN BABYLON CITY

Introduction: there are 62 million U.S women in their reproductive age from (15-45) are sexually active use hormonal contraceptive methods and about 222 million women in developing countries avoid pregnancy are not use modern contraceptive methods. Purpose: The study done to identify the effect of contraceptives among women and focus on natural family planning or fertility awareness. Methodology: A descriptive analytic study was conducted to identify the effect of contraceptives and selected non-probability sample from (50) women (17-46) years old who have side effect of contraceptives who attend at child maternity hospital for different causes during the period 1/1/2013-30/2/2013. Questionnaire format used for data collection was designed and constructed after reviewing related literatures and previous studies. Results: the study revealed that the highest percentage 24.4% of study sample their age group (22-26, 27-31) years respectively, 40.4% of the study sample was primary school graduate and 42.5% are overweight with SD. Was 29.9 ± 6.17 and shows that the majority of study sample was (95.7%)for having headache and back pain respectively,(91.5%) for having Psychological disturbance and urinary tract infection, (76.6%) were overweight,( 53.2%) having bleeding, (46.8%) having nausea and breast pain, respectively, (42.6%) for hypertension disorder and(27.7%) for unexplained bleeding and there was a statistical significant association between Psychological disturbance, Headache, Back pain, Overweight, Urinary tract infection, High cholesterol, Fibroid, Diabetes mellitus, Elevation of lactic acid hormone, Ovarian cyst, Breast enlargement and Unexplained bleeding with taking contraceptive. Conclusion: It was important to teach women how to use natural family planning to avoid the risk of pharmacological contraceptive and pregnancy.