الفهرس 
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Abstract
Unintended pregnancy is an important worldwide public health problem that affects women, their families, and society. It is considered as a potential hazard for every sexually active woman. It can be debilitating to woman and infant’s health It typically been defined as a pregnancy that is either mistimed or unwanted at conception. Mistimed is generally defined as a pregnancy that is desired later in life but not at conception” and unwanted is defined as not wanted then or at any time in the future.
A cross-sectional study design was used to determine the associations of contraceptive knowledge, perceptions, and use with occurrence of UIP. This study was carried out on Mothers (users and non-users of contraception) attending the vaccination unit , and agreed to participate in the study. excluding women with previous sterilization and women giving birth once.
These women were attending primary health care units for infant EPI (Expanded Programme for Immunization). This study was conducted in primary health care units (PHCUs) in Ismailia district.
There are 15 primary health care units in Ismailia district. There are 7 urban and 8 rural primary health care units in Ismailia district. The total number of infant aged (2months) was 1249, infant aged (4months) was 1240, and infant aged (6months) was 1248 recorded for immunization in June 2018 distributed between PHCUs. Accordingly, the PHCUs were stratified into urban & rural units and proportionate sample from the attendants was selected by a simple random sample from records. All infants registered in all PHCUs had a number and 408 participants were selected from these records by simple random sample. If the selected number was not present, simple random sampling was