Asridew, Sefrash (2014) Assessment of Magnitude and Factors Associated With Unintended Pregnancy among Women Attending Antenatal Care at Ghandi Memorial Hospital. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background- Unintended pregnancy is an important public health issue in developed and developing countries because of its negative association with the social and health outcomes for mothers, children, the family and the nation. In Ethiopia, a study conducted at selected public health centers of Addis Ababa reported that the magnitude of unintended pregnancy was 38.7%; this indicates that it is one of the major reproductive health problems in the city. Objective-The objective of this study was to assess magnitude and factors associated with unintended pregnancy among women attending antenatal care at Gandi memorial hospital in Addis Ababa. Methods-A facility based cross sectional survey design using quantitative method was used to conduct this study. Systematic random sampling technique was used to select participants for the assessment. A total of 627 women attending antenatal care were interviewed to examine sets of variables using questionnaire. Magnitude of unintended pregnancy was determined along with the corresponding 95%CI. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regressions were employed to assess factors associated with unintended pregnancy. Result- Out of the total 627 pregnancies, 395(63%) were intended and 232(37%) were reported to be unintended. The statistically significant independent predictors for unintended pregnancy found in this study were family size and number of pregnancy. Women with family size of three or less had 66% (AOR=0.34, 95% CI=0.13, 0.79) lower chance of having unintended pregnancy than those women with family size of four or more. Those women with two or less pregnancies had 55% (AOR=0.45, 95%CI=0.21, 0.91) lower chance of having unintended pregnancy than those women with three or more pregnancies. Conclusion- Findings of this study indicated that unintended pregnancy is one of the reproductive health problems in the study area. Family size and number of pregnancies a woman had were negative predictors of unintended pregnancy. Recommendation- Reproductive health programs should give emphasis on mass media messages addressing on the advantages of small family size and low number of pregnancies by creating the awareness of the people on family planning with full availability and accessibility family planning methods in the health facilities.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA1001 Forensic Medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2018 08:01 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2018 08:01 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6852 |
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