Overview About the Research Variables

1. Age
Age is one factor that determines the selection of contraceptive methods. Healthy reproductive period is known that pregnancy and childbirth are the 20-35 years it has been ready to get pregnant while the risk of high risk pregnancies occur in the young maternal age is <20 years and gestational age> 35 years. Thus age greatly affect the research methods of contraception to avoid complications that may occur in the mother or fetus (Wiknjastro H, 2006).
In choosing a suitable contraceptive devices, and both are things tricky. All must be tailored to the age and purpose of the female partner of childbearing age. In medicine, there are three time periods used as the basis for the normal use of contraception, namely the delaying fertility / pregnancy, regulate the fertility / spacing of fertility and the end of fertility.
a. Delaying Pregnancy
In times of delaying fertility / pregnancy is a time for women infertile couples who are married by age <20 years. In women that age, the means of reproduction is still not stable, so that fear can happen things that are not desirable when she was pregnant.
b. Spacing pregnancies
The best age for mothers to give birth according to the science of reproductive health between the ages of 20-30 years, but recently started to move up to the age of 35 years, the necessary condition of contraception for women this age of high effectiveness, the ability to restore fertility is also quite high because the acceptor is still expects to have more children, age 3-4 years can be used with the desired spacing, and do not hinder milk production.
c. Ending fertility / stop
This period is when women aged over 30 years and already has 2 children. Contraception is needed is a high effectiveness, and can be used for long-term. (Anonymous, 2002).
2. Parity
To save the mother and child it is necessary to adjust the spacing births. Parity 1-2 is the most secure parity minimize complications that may occur in the mother. Parity ≥ 3 have a high risk obstetric and can be dealt with better with family planning (Wiknjastro H, 2006).
Parity is the number of babies are born, whether born alive or stillborn. Mothers who give birth often have a high risk of child mortality compared with mothers who gave birth to a little more. Safe delivery for mother is the second and third childbirth (Royston, 1994). Parity is the parity 2-3 safest from the standpoint of maternal deaths. The higher the parity is also higher maternal mortality (Wiknjosastro H, 2005).
3. Education
The higher the education level attained reflects an acceptor level of intellectual, educated people are generally easy to understand about this new, easy to follow and can change bad habits in the form of attitude so that an educated mother is more concerned with the welfare of the family.
Education can be categorized as low if early education first 9 years of schooling up to secondary education (junior high). Categorized as high education levels of education when at least secondary education (high school) which includes courses pandidikan diploma, undergraduate, masters, doctors and specialists who held college. (Anon: 2007)
4. Work
Work on the general activity that takes time, work for mothers will have an influence on the work of family planning participants and the husband will affect income and economic status of families. A family with economic status on fertility behavior are encouraging the formation of a large family. Employment status may affect the participation in family planning because of factors influence the work environment that encourages a person to participate in family planning, so it will indirectly affect the status of the use of contraceptives. (Gungde, 2008).
5. Culture
Current trends concerning the number of families; impact the number of families in which individuals grow and develop to the individual; importance of having a son in the eyes of society because it will continue the family name; whether the public connects directly between the number of children who possessed a man and his manhood; values ​​in the community about being a "woman" only if he can "give" the child to her partner. (H Varney, 2006)