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Modern contraception, a pillar of safe motherhood is known for its benefits including limitingunwanted pregnancies and reducing infant and maternal mortality and morbidity. Moderncontraception significantly reduces up to 35% of maternal deaths, 13% of child mortalitiesand up to 25% of under-five mortalities. This research aimed to explore factors associatedwith the utilization of modern contraceptive methods among women of reproductive age (15-49) attending the Jinja regional referral hospital in the Jinja district. The study involved theuse of a descriptive cross-sectional study design and a total of 365 randomly selected womenof reproductive age (15-49) at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital were enrolled into the study.Data on the current use of modern contraceptives and related factors were collected using aresearcher-administered questionnaire after which the data was checked for completenessand analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software version 25.Factors associated with modern contraceptive utilization were determined using logisticregression analysis and Chi2 square test while statistical significance was determined at pvalue≤0.05 and 95% confidence interval. We enrolled a total of 365 study participants. Theprevalence of modern contraceptive uptake was found to be 30.14%. Factors associated withmodern contraception uptake included age, marital status, parity, number of living children,age of the youngest child, caesarean delivery, and discussion of modern contraceptive usewith partner. After adjusting for possible confounders, multivariate logistic regressionanalysis showed that only the age of the youngest child and the expected time to haveanother child significantly influenced modern contraceptive use. Modern contraceptive usein this study was low and independently associated with the age of the youngest child and the expected time to have another child. More efforts need to increase modern contraceptive uptake