Family Centered Approach in Primary Health Care: Experience from an Urban Area of Mangalore, India

Table 2

Family planning (FP) status among eligible couples in the area before the implementation of family centered approach ().

Study variable	Mean/	SD/%
Mean age of marriage for women	18.6	1.2
Mean age of marriage for men	24.14	2.8
Mean age at 1st child for women	19.9	1.6
Mean age at 1st child for men	25.3	2.1
Average number of children	2.7	1.1
Spontaneous abortions	61	4.3%
MTPs	78	5.5%
Knowledge of FP	302	21.4%
Ever practiced FP	178	12.6%

Medical termination of pregnancy.