Shore, Hirbo (2012) Assessment of Desire for Marriage and Fertility Preferences among Adolescent Girls in a Senior Secondary School; Borena, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background information: Adolescence is the transitional period from childhood to adulthood characterized by significant physiological, psychological and social changes. It is during this period that the biosocial transition is experienced, including intention and desire for future individual and societal role such as marriage and child bearing. Age at first marriage has a major effect on childbearing since women who marry early have, on average, a longer period of exposure to pregnancy and a greater number of lifetime births. In Ethiopia among women age 25-49, 63 percent married by age 18, and the median age at first marriage among women age 25-49 is 16.5 years. The fertility among adolescents age 15-19 in Ethiopia is 79 births per 1,000 women. The contribution of adolescents’ fertility to the overall fertility rate in Ethiopia is significant. This study complements research on adolescents’ reproductive and marital behavior by examining their desired age of marriage and family formation. Objective: The objective of the study was to assess adolescents’ desire for marriage and fertility preferences among high school students in a Senior Secondary School, Borena, Ethiopia. Methods and material: School based cross-sectional study was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods among sample of 422 adolescents from senior secondary and preparatory school on their desire for marriage and fertility preferences from January 5-6, 2012. Data was entered by Epidata version 3.1 and analyzed SPSS version 16. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were carried out. Result: More than four fifth (85.4%) of adolescents desire to marry at age less than twenty four years. The mean desired age of marriage was 21.1 year (20-22.2 years). More than one fourth (29.2%) desired to have child five or more children and the mean desired number of children was 3.85 (1.85-5.85). Multivariate logistic regression showed that religion (being Muslim and Catholic), mother education (being illiterate), having married friend(s), ever had sexual intercourse, and internal locus of control (higher) were independently associated with desired age of marriage. Furthermore, ethnicity (being Amhara and Burji), places of birth (Rural), desired age of marriage, believe of parent determine when and who to marry, intension to have child and internal locus of control (higher) independently associated with desired fertility preferences. Conclusion: Great majority of adolescents desired to marry before 24 years of age. Significant proportion of adolescents desire to have five or more children. School should offer adolescents’ reproductive health education with focus on increasing awareness among young people on the micro and macro advantages of late age of marriage and lower fertility preference.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2018 07:15 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2018 07:15 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6525 |
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