Prevalence and determinants of unintended pregnancy among women in south-western Nigeria
| Autor: | MA Lamina |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Rural Population Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Adolescent Urban Population Population Nigeria Abortion Birth rate Young Adult Help-Seeking Behavior Pregnancy Surveys and Questionnaires Environmental health Reproductive rights Prevalence Humans Medicine Prospective Studies Rural settlement education Original Research education.field_of_study business.industry Abortion Induced General Medicine Middle Aged Unintended pregnancy induced abortion determinants contraception urban area rural area Pregnancy Unwanted Contraception Cross-Sectional Studies Logistic Models Socioeconomic Factors Family planning Female Rural area business |
| Zdroj: | Ghana Medical Journal; Vol 49, No 3 (2015); 187-194 |
| ISSN: | 0855-0328 0016-9560 |
| Popis: | Objective : To study the prevalence of unwanted pregnancy in urban and rural settlements in Southwestern Nigeria. Design : A prospective cross-sectional study of women within reproductive age. Setting : Community-based study of unwanted pregnancy was conducted in 2012. Participants : They were women of reproductive age who had experienced unintended and/or unwanted pregnancies and they were randomly selected from rural and urban areas of Ogun state in Nigeria. Intervention : A semi-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Main outcome measure: The prevalence of unintended/ unwanted pregnancy, associated factors including the views, perception and attitudes of community members in both urban and rural settlements and the pattern of help-seeking behavior on the problem. Results : The age range of respondents was 15-48 years (mean age 31.2± 6.7 years). One thousand, two hundred and twenty-one (51.6%) of the respondents were married. The percentage of illiterate respondents was 3.5% in urban area and 4.1% in rural area. There was a statistically significant association between level of education and use of a method to avoid or delay pregnancy (p |
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