Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
KAP Study ,Family Planning ,Contraceptives ,Short Gap Births ,

Family planning programme was not as successful as expected, however, it has given an universal knowledge about a concept of various family planning methods in the population. Besides these huge knowledge of contraceptives, there is existing a large gap between practice of using contraceptive methods due to various barriers like socioeconomic, geographical and territorial variations. The women who are married and who are requiring any more children, but not following any family planning techniques are known as unmet need or as KAP-GAP. Which gives the non practice of reproductive intentions and contraception. As only two items like desire for more children and practice of contraception are required for analyzing the data, many fertility studies have been carried out and the survey are reported. The level of knowledge of women and men on short gap births was assessed, in terms of grading which included, good, average and poor, the knowledge of wife falling under good are observed to be 27.77%, average was observed to be in 31.74%, poor was reported in 40.47% of patients, the knowledge of husbands participated in the study was observed to be good among 29.36%, average among 38.09%, poor among 32.53%, coming to the attitude scores among participants, it was assessed in terms of satisfactory and unsatisfactory, among women, 28.7% fell under satisfactory and 71.42% fell under unsatisfactory scores, and in husbands, 36.5% fell under satisfactory and 63.49% fell under unsatisfactory scores which are given in the table 2. It can be concluded form the study on observations that, most of the study population are not with good compliance with the family planning techniques and are not aware and in practice with giving appropriate gap between child birth.

9 , 2 , 2019