Background: Family planning or contraception methods are greatly effective in the prevention of unintended pregnancies, however; some women never use it or inconsistent use it. This improper use increases the risk of unintended pregnancies that harms the mother and child's health.This problem is understudied in Egypt.

Objectives: We aimed to assess rate, risk factors for family planning discontinuation and side effect of contraceptive mehtods in Baqlia village, Egypt.

Subjects and methods: This was a descriptive longitudinal study. It was conducted in Baqlia Family Health Center among 400 ladies who were attending the place. Married women aged between 15 and 49 years, who were attending BFHC in 2019 for any health service and ever using family planning methods (pills, injectables, or intrauterine device IUD).

Results: Discontinuation was detected in 106 out of the included 400 participants (discontinnuation rate = 26.5%). Discontinuation was significantly associated with working ladies, living alone, older age of the last child, older age at initiating family planning, and using other methods rather than pills. On multivariate analysis, the age of the last child was the only significant risk for discontinuation of family planning.

Conclusion: The rate of family planning discontinuation is relatively high in our study. The health authorities should do much effort to increase public awareness regarding the importance of family planning to the mother and children.

Keywords: Discontinuation rate; Family planning ; Participants; Predictors.