| Community-based survey of unwanted pregnancy in southwestern Nigeria. | |
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PMID: 17348329 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Unwanted pregnancy, and consequently unsafe abortion, remains major reproductive health problems in Nigeria that needs to be tackled. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of information on this problem at the community level. This study therefore examined the prevalence of unwanted pregnancy in the community as well as associated factors including the views, perceptions and attitudes of community members towards unwanted pregnancy and the pattern of help-seeking behaviour on unwanted pregnancy. Information was obtained from 3,743 women in urban and rural communities in two Nigerian states of Lagos and Edo. At some point in life, 26.6% of the respondents had had unwanted Pregnancy while abortion prevalence was 21.7%. Short birth intervals (21.1%), high cost of raising children (20.1%), interruption of education (20.1%) and being unmarried (17.3%) were the most common reasons for not wanting pregnancies. Most of the respondents (91.3%) were aware of some form of contraception but ever-use rate was only 36.6% while current use rate was 23.4%. Both abortion and contraceptive use were significantly associated with increasing levels of education. Unwanted pregnancy constitutes a problem even at the community level and more research is needed to understand the persistent disparity between contraceptive knowledge and usage, as increased usage will reduce unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion. |
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Authors:
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Boniface A Oye-Adeniran; Isaac F Adewole; Augustine V Umoh; Ekanem E Ekanem; Abidoye Gbadegesin; Ngozi Iwere |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: African journal of reproductive health Volume: 8 ISSN: 1118-4841 ISO Abbreviation: Afr J Reprod Health Publication Date: 2004 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2007-03-12 Completed Date: 2007-04-04 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9712263 Medline TA: Afr J Reprod Health Country: Nigeria |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 103-15 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. bonifaceoye@yahoo.com |
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Adult Contraception Behavior / statistics & numerical data Female Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Surveys Humans Logistic Models Nigeria Pregnancy Pregnancy, Unplanned* / psychology Rural Population / statistics & numerical data Urban Population / statistics & numerical data |
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