Al-Hikmah University Journal

Modern child spacing is a conscious effort by couples to space or limit number of children and helps them achieve desirable number of children. The study was carried out to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards modern child spacing among women of childbearing age in Samaru community. A descriptive cross sectional study design was employed, and systematic sampling technique was used to select 89 women of child bearing age attending the Primary Health Care Center Samaru community. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection, and data was analyzed using frequency and percentage tables. More than two-third of the women (79.8%) had good knowledge of modern child spacing and a good number (78.6%) of the women had positive attitude. Although, (66.3%) of the women reported poor practice of modern child spacing. The major factor influencing their decision regarding modern child spacing was fear of side effect. About the results of this study it is recommended that the government and donor agencies should embark on massive and aggressive enlightenment campaign on the benefits of utilizing birth control both on the childbearing mothers, their immediate family and the entire community and by extension the state and country at large.