Prevalence and correlates associated with early childbearing among teenage girls in Ethiopia: A multilevel analysis.

Autor: Liga AD; Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia., Boyamo AE; Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Wachemo University, Hosaena, Ethiopia., Jabir YN; Department of Statistics, College of Natural Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia., Tereda AB; Department of Statistics, College of Natural Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Aug 08; Vol. 18 (8), pp. e0289102. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 08 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289102
Abstrakt: Background: Teenage childbearing remains a significant global health concern, and in nations with limited resources, it is the major cause of newborn and maternal deaths. Early teenage childbearing is still Ethiopia's public health issue. Therefore, the goal of this study was to identify the prevalence and correlates of influencing early childbearing among teenage girls across Ethiopia.
Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey. A multistage stratified cluster sampling strategy based on the community was used to include the 3,498 participants in total. To determine the significantly correlated factors that influence adolescent pregnancy, a multilevel binary logistic regression analysis was used. The factors that have a significant association with early childbearing were identified using the Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) and 95% Confidence Interval (CI).
Results: This study demonstrated that 10.3% of teens across the country had children at an early age. The odds of early childbearing among teenage girls increased with first marriages occurring before the age of 18, non-formal education, being from a lower- or middle-class family, not using contraceptives, following Muslim or other religious beliefs, and being aware of the fertile window. Teenagers who had exposure to the media, however, had a reduced chance of becoming pregnant early.
Conclusions: The study indicates that early teenage childbearing is still Ethiopia's most significant public health problem. Therefore, the Ethiopian government should ban early marriage while also taking steps to reduce the risk through formal education, improved access to reproductive health education, and contraception, particularly for adolescent girls from low-income families and, by educating religious institutions about pregnancy dangers.
Competing Interests: The authors declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Liga et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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