ABSTRACT
The present study aimed to assess women utilization of family planning services after IUCDs insertion. The present study is a descriptive study. The study was conducted at family planning outpatient clinic of El-Mansoura University Hospital. Simple random sample. All women who are using IUCDs for one year or more, had different levels of education, occupation, social classes who attend family planning outpatient clinics during six months period. The sample size 130 women using IUCDs. 1-Structured interviewing sheet 2-Assessment sheet for physical setting of the family planning clinic, 3-Assessment sheet of provided care. A pilot study had been done 13 clients accordingly tools and data collection plane were modified 3-The main results revealed that the majority of the study sample [96.9] were using IUCDcu 380, 48.5% used it for 4-12 years and 69.2% of women didn't make follow up in addition 32.2% of women suffer from IUCD5 complications as, bleeding [18.5%] and vaginitis [16.2%] were the most common complains meanwhile 67.7% didn't suffer from any complication. The rate follow up and satisfaction were lower in women who took a lot of time to reached family planning services, in women who had complication, with low income and with no husband approval. It's concluded that, the majority of women do not make follow up post IUCDs insertion due to many factors such as, ages of the women, their educational levels, occupation, husbands approval of using family planning services, number of children in the family, and income, lack structures and facilities of family planning clinic. In addition, there was a relation between the decreased quality of the provided services and the previous factors. As well as there is a relation between the decreasing of utilization of family planning services and both, long waiting time and neglection of counseling and lacked many necessary structure facilities and supplies. So that, the present study Recommend. Raising awareness of women regarding the importance of follow up post IUCDs insertion, further study to assess the factors affecting women utilization of family planning services on larger sample size