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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Family Planning in Saudi Arabia, 2017

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Background: Understanding the knowledge and conceptions of Saudi population regarding family planning methods is important for increasing the public awareness and maintaining the health of the women. Objectives: Evaluating the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) regarding the family planning methods in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Methods: A cross-sectional community questionnaire based study was conducted among 560 adult married subjects in Saudi Arabia, from March to July 2017. Results: The most of included subjects had college degree, less than 3 children and were employee. The majority of subjects had good knowledge regarding the meaning, types and uses of contraceptives which resulted in high attitude and good practice pattern as 65.4% of subjects had good KAP toward family planning. Conclusion: The use of contraceptive types was quietly high among the Saudi subjects and this could be due to that most of the subjects had high educational degree. Keywords: 

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10.12816/0043102

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Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Family Planning, contraceptives, kingdom of Saudi Arabia(KSA)

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Jumanah Ahmed

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Alsaedi

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Umm Al-Qura university

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Soliman Mohammed

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Alakel

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King Abdulaziz University

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Abdulaziz Zaher

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Alalmaei

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Imam Mohammd Ibn Saud Islamic University

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Moodhi Rabih

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Al-Mutairi

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Qassim university

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Sultan Hamad

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Almutair

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KSAUHS

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70

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2

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2143

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2018-01-01

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2018-08-23

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2018-01-01

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345

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348

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1687-2002

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2090-7125

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Family Planning in Saudi Arabia, 2017

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22 Jan 2023