• Prakrity Sinha

Background Population of india is increasing exclusively and is contributing to one sixth of the population of world by having more than 6 billion people . This population explosion is to be found as the major reason for the shortage of resources and its impact in the progress in various developmental sector are also affected . Millions of people are still illiterate ,unhealthy and lack of nutritional diet due to the shortage of resources available in comparision to fulfill the demand of this large population and around 17 million new individuals are added every year which ultimately leads to over population. So, the stabilization and control of population should be a needed concern of topic. Reduction in the woman's productivity play’s a major role in the economic burden on their families , communities and societies and for this there level of knowledge on family planning shows a great responsibility . Objective To access the knowledge and attitude of the women in their  productive age group about the family planning and to co-relate practice with their knowledge and attitude  for their family planning methods. Methods A hospital based study was employed on 75 woman in the Dufferin hospital who were in their reproductive age . Self administered questionnaire was used to collect the data and was analysed by using the MS word and MS-EXCEL excel . Result The study believe that majority of woman 49.33%  were in the age group of 18 to 25 years with secondary education 34.66 % mostly and with 1 child 46.66% in majority . Approximately 64% of them had good knowledge and favourable attitude 60% towards family planning but the practice rate decreases to 29.33 %.  Conclusion Overall finding of the study shows the majority of woman have an adequate acknowledged with a favourable attitude but the practice regarding the family planning method is low. This shows the gap between the knowledge of contraception and it's actually practice of contraception .

Family planning , contraceptive methods , knowledge , attitude , practice.

"KAP study on family planning among women of reproductive age group in dufferin hospital, lucknow ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.c620-c632, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208268.pdf

"KAP study on family planning among women of reproductive age group in dufferin hospital, lucknow ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppc620-c632, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208268.pdf