Prevalence of Unplanned Pregnancy and Factor Among Pregnant Women, Ethiopia 2018 GC

Asnakech Sisay

doi:10.11648/j.cmr.20190802.12

Abstract

Unplanned pregnancy is a public health concern in both developing and developed world. It is predispose women to maternal deaths and illness mainly through unsafe abortion and poor maternity care, and also it causes adverse social and health outcome for mother, children and family as whole. Unplanned pregnancy can have serious health, economic, psychological and social consequence for women, their children and families. The objectives of this study are to assess the prevalence and associated factors of unplanned pregnancy among pregnant mothers in Arerti town. Community based cross sectional study was done from March 18 – March 22, 2018 GC. Out of 334 pregnant women in Arerti town, data were collected from 327(97.9%) pregnant women. The prevalence of unplanned pregnancy was 97(29.9%). Use of family planning methods [AOR= 3.845(2.023-7.307)] and educational status of pregnant women [AOR=12.472(1.571-99.011)] were factors significantly associated with unplanned pregnancy. According to this study over one third of pregnant women had unplanned pregnancy. We Recommend that there is an apparent need to provide information and counseling about each contraceptive methods by health extension and other health service worker in order to make informed choice and correct method use and strengthening family planning methods among client in need of service and encourage women’s education.

Highlights

Unplanned pregnancy is a public health problem in both developing and developed world, because of it cause adverse social and health outcome for mother, children and family as whole [1]
Out of 334 pregnant women who lives in Arerti town, a total of 327 pregnant women interviewed and responded to the questionnaire mean that 97.9% response rate.242 (74%) lives in urban
In this study unplanned pregnancy was 29.9% among the study participants. This findings is in agreements with the findings from other studies in Ethiopia [36] and Kenya [18] but it is lower than the other studies that were conducted in Jimma 35% [37] and Hosana 34% [19], this might be due to the increased availability and accessibility of maternal health services, including access to modern family planning with time

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Introduction

Background Unplanned pregnancy is a public health problem in both developing and developed world, because of it cause adverse social and health outcome for mother, children and family as whole [1]. Unplanned pregnancy can have serious health, economic, psychological and social consequence for women, their children and families. Unplanned pregnancy can lead to unwanted birth or abortion which could be unsafe; it might affect the mothers, child and the society at large and different circumstance. For instance they may be un safe abortion, delayed or no prenatal care, poor maternal health reduce mother child relationship quality, physical abuse and violence against women, poor developmental out comes for children, increase risk of low birth weight as well as increased morbidity and mortality [3]. The number of abortion increase from 19.7 million in 2003 to 21.6 million in 2008 which occurs almost in developing country [5]

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