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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Glob. Womens Health
Sec. Contraception and Family Planning
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1420476
This article is part of the Research Topic Current Advances in Contraceptive Use, Technology, and Promotion View all 3 articles

Predictors of long-acting contraceptive utilization hot spots in Ethiopia: Using Geographical Weight Regression Analysis

Provisionally accepted

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    The use of long-acting contraceptives is a common health challenge in Ethiopia. Therefore, the current study aimed to assess the determinants of using long-acting contraceptive hotspots in Ethiopia using data from the Ethiopian Mini Demographic and Health Survey for 2019.This study used data from the Ethiopia Mini Demographic and Health Survey 2019 and included a total weighted sample of 8,885 women in the analysis. The geographical variation of longacting contraceptive usage was initially observed using hotspot analysis. Arc-GIS version 10.7 was used for geographically weighted regression. Ordinarily, least squares regression was performed to identify predictors that explain the geographical variation in the use of long-acting contraceptives. Geographic weighted regression was used to predict the hotspot area of longacting contraceptive methods.The overall prevalence of long-acting contraceptive utilization use was 6.9 %( 95% CI; (6.4-7.45). Most of the statistically significant hotspots for long-acting contraceptives were found in lactated areas of the Oromia part of Amhara and Dire Dawa. Primary education, followers of Muslim religion, married status, and women having >4 children were the determinants of spatial variation use of hotspot areas for long-acting contraceptive methods.Conclusions: Spatial analysis showed that primary education, followers of the Muslim religion, married status, and women having>4 children were the predictors of hotspot areas of the use of long-acting contraceptive methods. A detailed map of long-acting contraceptive use hotspots and their determinants will enable decisions to target their socio-demographic related predictors of the women.

    Keywords: Name: Hailemichael Kindie Abate long-acting contraceptive, Geographically weighted regression, predictors, Contraceptive, Ethiopia

    Received: 20 Apr 2024; Accepted: 01 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Abate, Azagew, Kassahun, Alamirew, Mekonnen, Wassie and Zegeye. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Hailemichael K. Abate, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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