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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Unintended Pregnancy Among Pregnant Woman in Gondar Town, North West Ethiopia, 2014

Overview
Journal BMC Res Notes
Publisher Biomed Central
Specialties Biology
General Medicine
Date 2019 Mar 24
PMID 30902066
Citations 21
Authors
Fentahun Yenealem
Gedefaye Niberet
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Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess prevalence and associated factors of unintended pregnancy among pregnant women in Gondar town, North western Ethiopia, 2014. A community based cross-sectional study was conducted among pregnant women to select 325 participants for face to face interview by using simple random sampling technique from April 1-May 30, 2014. Bivariate and multivariate data analysis was performed using SPSS for Windows version 20 and level of significance of association was determined at P value < 0.05.

Result: This study identified that 20.6% of pregnant women were unintended of which 6.8 were mistimed and 13.8 were unwanted. Unintended pregnancy was associated with family size (≥ 4) (AOR = 2.92; 95% CI 1.605, 5.31), marital status (single) (AOR = 12.59; 95% CI 5.18, 30.6) and age at first pregnancy < 18 years AOR (95% CI) 3.02 (1.522, 6.245). Therefore it is important to adequately counsel women concerning positive mind-sets about its prevention mechanism and its consequences of unintended pregnancies.

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