Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Modern Contraceptives Among Street Girls of Bole Sub-City, Addis Ababa
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2014-10
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Addis Ababa University
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The general objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and Practice of modern
contraceptives among street girls of the Bole sub-city, Addis Ababa. A cross sectional
quantitative survey was conducted, on 84 street girls in the Bole sub-city, Addis Ababa.
Participants were recruited from “cluster” sites such as main road sides, isolated slum areas,
around Churches and/or Mosques (in the mornings on Sundays and other religious feast days)
and streets where street girls usually reside and/or sleep.The primary Data were collected using
a structured interview questionnaire in local language (Amharic) after informed verbal consent.
To analyze the data Data were then entered into SPSS version 20.0 for analysis, logistic
regression models were fitted to assess associations. Associations were measured by the Odds
ratio and its 95% confidence interval.The study revealed that more than 57% street girls have
heard of modern contraceptives and have knowledge of at least one contraceptive. The three
most commonly identified modern contraceptives among the respondents were 22.6% condom,
10.7% injectable and 9.5% pills age of 20–25 years (AOR=3.71), income per month greater than
1,000 ETB (AOR =6.71) and education level, who attend high school (AOR=4.25) and above
high school (AOR=6.31) were associated with modern contraceptive use. Most of 79.8%, the
study subjects have interest to know more about modern contraceptives Moreover, 81% of the
respondent consider modern contraceptive method do not have harmful effects on health and
58% recommend modern contraceptive methods to be used by others In general about 73.8%
have a favorable or a positive attitude towards modern contraceptive. About 97% of street girls
who had sexual intercourse, has more than one sexual partner and first time sexual intercourse
was at the mean age of 15 years. Nearly 78% of the street girls had a chance to be pregnant,
42.8% gave birth in their stay at street and 78% ever used contraceptive methods. Despite their
Knowledge about the methods significant number of respondents were associated with positive
attitude towards modern contraceptive. There is critical need to teach with consideration of
street girls context about the modern contraceptive practice to overcome the reproductive health
problems
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