Trends and determinants of adolescent pregnancy: Results from Kenya demographic health surveys 2003-2014.
Background: Adolescent pregnancy increases the risk of disability and death due to unsafe abortion, prolonged labour and delivery, and complications after birth. Availability of accurate data is important to guide decision-making related to adolescent sexual reproductive health (ASRH). This study an...
| Publicado en: | BMC Women's Health Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12 |
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10/10/2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=159575679&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 159575679 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14726874 1CIP jtl: BMC Women's Health issn: 14726874 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 10/10/2022 vid: 22 iid: 1 pid: 24147 pub: BioMed Central artinfo: ui: 159575679 159575679 NLM36217181 10.1186/s12905-022-01986-6 NLM36217181 159575679 ppf: 1 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Trends and determinants of adolescent pregnancy: Results from Kenya demographic health surveys 2003-2014. aug: au: Mutea, Lilian Were, Vincent Ontiri, Susan Michielsen, Kristien Gichangi, Peter affil: Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium sug: subj: Abortion, Induced Pregnancy in Adolescence Surveys Marital Status Female Kenya Pregnancy Adolescence Adolescent: 13-18 years Female ab: Background: Adolescent pregnancy increases the risk of disability and death due to unsafe abortion, prolonged labour and delivery, and complications after birth. Availability of accurate data is important to guide decision-making related to adolescent sexual reproductive health (ASRH). This study analyses the trends in prevalence and factors associated with adolescent pregnancy in Kenya using data from three national Demographic Health Surveys (2003, 2008/2009, 2014).Methods: Our analysis focused on a subsample of data collected from women aged 20 to 24 years. A trend analysis was performed to establish a change in the rate of adolescent pregnancy in 2003, 2008/2009, and 2014 survey data points. Binary Logistic regression and pooled regression analysis were used to explore factors associated with adolescent pregnancy.Results: The percentage of women aged 20 to 24 years who reported their first pregnancy between ages 15 and 19 years was 42% in 2003 and 42.2% in 2009 but declined to 38.9% in 2014. Using regression analyses, we established that education status, marital status, religion and wealth quintile were associated with adolescent pregnancy. Trend analysis shows that there was an overall decreasing trend in adolescent pregnancy between 2003 and 2014.Conclusion: Although Kenya has made strides in reducing the prevalence of adolescent pregnancy in the last decade, much more needs to be done to further reduce the burden, which remains high.Definition: Adolescents: Although WHO defines the adolescence period as being 10-19 years, this paper focuses on the late adolescent period, 15-19 years, here in referred to as adolescents. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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