--- abstract: 'Background: According to UN projection India’s population will reach 1.53 billion by the year 2050 and will be the highest population in the world. The success of the present RCH-II programme relies on the acceptance of contraceptive methods in reproductive age group. Objective: To determine the prevalence, type of contraceptive used and reasons for not accepting contraceptives in rural Maharashtra. Methodology: A cross sectional study was carried out in field practice area of a rural tertiary health care hospital in Wardha district of Maharashtra, India. Married women in the reproductive age group of 15 to 49 years were the study participants. Results: Out of total 378 women respondents 223(58.99%) were contraceptive acceptors. 62.78% women accepted permanent method of contraception. Among the temporary methods most commonly accepted was Cupper-T by 20.62% women. Commonest reason for not accepting contraceptives was desire of children in 30.32% women followed by fear of side effects in 18.06%. Conclusion: Many factors like desire for children; especially a male child, fear of side effects of contraceptives, breastfeeding, attended the menopause…etc converge to shape a woman’s attitudes about the use of and the need for contraception.' altloc: - http://www.ojhas.org/issue46/2013-2-6.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - sonalic27@yahoo.com - ~ - ~ creators_name: - family: Choudhari given: SG honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Kadu given: AV honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Raut given: Y honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2013-08-25 date_type: published datestamp: 2014-02-25 12:41:47 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/91/54 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: - Kkakilaya BS editors_name: - family: Kakkilaya given: Srinivas honourific: Dr lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 9154 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/9154/1/2013-2-6.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: ~ item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: Contraceptive acceptance; Women; Reproductive age group lastmod: 2014-02-25 12:41:47 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 2(6) pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences publisher: Kakkilaya BS refereed: TRUE referencetext: "1.\tUN Press Release. 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