Magnitude and Factors Associated with Unintended Pregnancy among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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2022-08
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Addis Ababa University
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Unintended pregnancy is either unwanted or miss-timed at the time of conception and has a great impact on the health of fecund sexually active women in developing countries. This study aims to assess the magnitude and factors associated with unintended pregnancy among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Arada, Yeka sub cities, Addis Ababa. A facility based crosssectional study was conducted from March to April 2022 at 6 selected public health centers. Using a pre-tested questionnaire 355 pregnant women were included this study. All collected data were cleaned, entered and analysed using SPSS version 28. Summary statistics was used to present the findings. Multicolinearity and model fit test were performed before the analysis. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was done to test the association between the independent and outcome variables. P-value of <0.05 was considering as a cut-off point. Three hundred fifty five pregnant women with mean age 29.5 years included and 321(90.4%) were married. The prevalence of unintended pregnant was 65(18.3%) and majority of them 58(89.2%) experienced unintended pregnancy once until this study conducted. From the total unintended pregnancy 65 (18.3%), 37 (59.9%) were mistimed and 28 (43.1%) were unwanted. Significant determinant/factors of unintended pregnant were no or lower educational status, history of abortions, family planning accessibility and openly discussion with their partners/husbands. It is important that reproductive programs consider expanding their focus to the growing population of urban dwellers. This can be an interim strategy until the majority are empowered through better education and receive user friendly services.
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unintended pregnancy, women, abortions, family planning