European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Background: Unmet need of family planning affects the society by uncontrolled population
explosion. Tribal population being socioeconomic deprived group requires special attention
for contraceptive needs. Aims & Objectives: To assess the level of knowledge of tribal
women towards contraceptive usage, their fertility intention and the family planning
modalities used. Methodology: A detailed search was made on the current topic in various
databases including Pubmed, Pubmedcentral ,Science direct and Google scholar and the
findings were summarized after excluding the duplicates. Results:Tribal women had poor
knowledge and high unmet needs for family planning especially the women in states like
Jharkhand and chattishgarh. The most common method of family planning used was the
traditional methods. The reasons for unmet need were non acceptability by spouse and fear of
adverse health consequences. Conclusion: the unmet need for contraception is high among
women of tribal community, most commonly from Jharkhand and Chattishgarh