ABSTRACT

Background: Indonesia is a country with a high population growth rate and government encourages every family to use family planning. The type of family planning that is still low in use is intrauterine device, even thought it’s effective in a long term.

Objective: This study was aimed to identify the correlations of perceived susceptibility, perceived seriousness, perceived benefit, self-efficacy, perceived barrier and cues to action with choosing intra uterine device.

Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out on 109 mothers in Ngudikan Village. Data were collected using questionnaires.

Results: perceived susceptibility (p=0.000; r=0.436 ), perceived seriousness (p=0.000; r=0.402), perceived benefit (p=0.033; r=0.204 ), perceived barrier(p=0.00, r=-0.614), perceived self-efficacy (p=0.008; r=0.253 ) and cues to action (p=0.006; r=0.261 ) were noted to be correlate with the choice of intrauterine device in Nganjuk Indonesia.

Conclusion: The result of this study are perceived susceptibility, perceived seriousness, perceived benefit, self-efficacy, and cues to action will affect the decision mother’s to choosing intra uterine device. This study recommended further research with a transcultural nursing approach to follow up the result of this study.

Keyword:

Intrauterine device, health belief model, contraception, women