Materials and Methods: The Cross-sectional survey design was used to carry out a study at Mporokoso district hospital in Northern Province. A sample size of 229 women aged between 15-49 was purposively sampled. Data was collected using a questionnaire and descriptive statistics was used to report various factors that discouraged respondents not to go for family planning services. The association between utilisation of family planning services with independent categorical variables were investigated using chi-squared test.

Results: The majority (45%) of the women didn’t want to use modern family planning services for fear of causing side effects, 14.85% gave a reason of causing cancer, 12.23% said they cause infertility and 5.68% said it was against their religious beliefs. Long distance to the healthy facility and lack of spouse support also contributed to poor utilisation of family planning services at 7.42% and 14.8% respectively.

Conclusion: The findings showed a high awareness of modern Family Planning methods among women of childbearing age in Mporokoso district but the use rate was low. Therefore, it is imperative for reproductive health programs to intensify efforts in improving women’s knowledge of modern family planning methods in order to raise contraceptive prevalence rate. Further studies are necessary to identify other potential factors affecting the use of modern Family Planning methods among rural women.