Determinants of teenage pregnancy in Degua Tembien District, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: A community-based case-control study

Approximately 16 million teenagers aged 15-19 years and 2 million teenagers under the age of 15 years give birth annually, with 95% of these births occurring in developing countries. Ethiopia has one of the highest teenage fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa; however determinants of teenage pregna...

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Published in:PloS one 2018-07, Vol.13 (7), p.e0200898-e0200898
Main Authors: Ayele, Brhane G/Kidan, Gebregzabher, Tesfay Gebrehiwot, Hailu, Tesfay Tekle, Assefa, Belete Abera
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to education
Adolescent
Adolescents
Analysis
Birth control
Births
Case-Control Studies
Children & youth
Communication
Communities
Confidence intervals
Control methods
Demography - statistics & numerical data
Determinants
Developing countries
Ethiopia
Families & family life
Female
Females
Fertility
Girls
Group communication
Gynecology
Health care
Health status indicators
Humans
Income
LDCs
Medicine and Health Sciences
Obstetrics
Parents
Parents & parenting
People and Places
Population
Pregnancy
Pregnancy in Adolescence - statistics & numerical data
Public health
Regression analysis
Reproduction
Reproductive health
Reproductive Health - statistics & numerical data
Reproductive systems
Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data
Risk factors
Secondary schools
Social Class
Social Sciences
Statistical analysis
Stillbirth
Students
Studies
Teenage pregnancy
Teenagers
Young Adult
Young adults
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Summary:Approximately 16 million teenagers aged 15-19 years and 2 million teenagers under the age of 15 years give birth annually, with 95% of these births occurring in developing countries. Ethiopia has one of the highest teenage fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa; however determinants of teenage pregnancy are not well studied. Therefore, this study aimed to identify determinants of teenage pregnancy among female teenagers in Degua Tembien district, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, in 2015. A community-based case-control study was conducted in Degua' Tembien district from February 01, 2015 to March 15, 2015 with a randomly selected total sample size of 414 females (with a ratio of 1:2 case to control, 138 and 276 respectively). Data were entered in to Epi-Info and analyzed using SPSS software. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess predictors of the outcome variable; variables with a p-value
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0200898