PERILAKU UNMETNEED WANITA USIA SUBUR DI KELURAHAN TAMAN KOTA MADIUN

Introduction: Unmet need is a group of fertile women that are actually do not want to become pregnant currently, in purpose of giving birth spacing or limiting the number of the children but they do not use contraception to prevent the pregnancy. Unmet need has increased the risk of death to mothers in Indonesia because of the unsafe abortion. Objective: This research is aimed to gain the deep information about the reasons causing the unmet need behaviour viewed from psychological and interpersonal aspects. Methods: This research was a qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. The samples were the unmet need women in Taman Village, Madiun in December 2013 - February 2014 with a purposive sampling technique. The participants were seven unmet need women. The data was analyzed using content analysis with Colaizzi�s method. Results: The themes that found from the analysis about the reasons of unmet need behaviour are some varied reasons relate to the contraception use and method, the bad experience in using contraception, perception about the fertility, the husbands� support to do unmet need behaviour, lack of knowledge about contraception, natural method to prevent of pregnancy, hope of contraception method, and adequate coping. Psychological reasons of unmet need is gained from some varied reasons relate to the contraception use and metho