International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health | June 2020 | Vol 7 | Issue 6 Page 2100 International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Rahmatiqa C et al. Int J Community Med Public Health. 2020 Jun;7(6):2100-2104 http://www.ijcmph.com pISSN 2394-6032 | eISSN 2394-6040 Original Research Article Dominant factors on selection of contraception toward new family planning acceptors in public health center area in Padang Chamy Rahmatiqa*, Helena Patricia INTRODUCTION According to WHO in 2017 in developing countries and developed countries, users of contraception are mainly women who have reasons for using contraception, as biological, individual and social reasons, avoiding extra- marital or premarital pregnancy and preventing unwanted pregnancies after reaching the number of children as their will. 1 According to Huang (2014), the success of KB program from year to year is seen in the increase in contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) as well as the average rate of decline in the number of children born total fertility rate (TFR). 2 According to Bowers, contraceptive failure causes around 20 million unwanted pregnancies in developing countries each year. This has consequences for women and children they bear in terms of health as well as others. 3 Indonesian women receive contraception after childbirth usually obtained from various health facilities and various types of providers such as in hospitals with doctors or in maternity clinics with midwives. 4 The 2012 SKDI data states that the highest contraceptive failure rates are women who use periodic contraception (28.9%), interrupted intercourse (24.6%) condoms (14.5%) and pills (10.9%). 5 ABSTRACT Background: The use of family planning or as known as KB in Indonesia from 1970 to 2017 has increased significantly. The most use of KB in non MKJP was injection 70% and pill 21%. The use of this method was very influential on the level of family planning continuity. Viewed from the 2012 SDKI, the dropout rate in the injection method was 40.7%. This phenomenon has contributed to the stagnation of the total fertility rate and ultimately still impact to the high maternal mortality rate in Indonesia. Methods: This analytic study was conducted with a cross sectional approach. The populations in this study were all new family planning acceptors and samples of 114 people were taken by random sampling technique. The data collection was a questionnaire with data analysis using chi-square test. Results: More types of contraception were non MKJP (66.4%), more early adult age (60.8%), education level was more than half of low education (54.4%), and most of the mothers were unemployed (76.8). The parity were more than 1 and 2 children (52.8%), more contraceptive goals who did not want their children (60%), and the low support of their husbands was more than the high support of their husbands (55%). There was a relationship between age, education level, work status, parity, contraceptive goals, and husband support with the selection of contraceptive methods in new family planning acceptors. Conclusions: The dominant factor on selection of contraception toward new family planning acceptors was husband support. Keywords: External factor, Family planning acceptor, Internal factor Department of Public Health, STIKES Syedza Saintika, Padang, Indonesia Received: 09 March 2020 Revised: 13 April 2020 Accepted: 15 April 2020 *Correspondence: Dr. Chamy Rahmatiqa, E-mail: chamyrahmatiqa@gmail.com Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20202458