Familiar planning: a question of the choice

Abstract

It’s a descriptive study, carried through familiar planning women, in two municipal health centers, in Rio de Janeiro’s city. It had as an objective analyze the determinative factors in choice of the contraceptive method (CM) in 50 familiar planning participant women with more eighteen years old. The data had been collected by interview and direct comment. The results had demonstrated that the most used CM at the moment of the interview was oral contraceptive 41(82%) and the main factor for this choice was the other methods unaware. After educative practice the women more intended contraceptive methods was the DIU 17(34%) and the feminine sterilization 10(20%) and the main reason for the choice of these methods was don’t have more children. We perceived that it had significant change in factors that had influenced the method choice before and after the educative practice. The familiar planning must be a primordial element in health’s primary prevention. For the contraceptive method choice in a free and informed form, each one needs to know and have access to all the legally accepted methods.