Early marriage and health risks in children born: Scoping review

Abstract

Background: Early marriage in adolescents is widely found and it results in a poor risk to the newborn infants they delivered. Yet, scoping review research concerning the health impacts on the children born was not commonly found. Most of the scoping review research merely discussed the impact of adolescents. Purpose: To determine the impacts of early marriage on children's health. Method: The literature study employed scoping review approach by adapting the PRISMA-ScR checklist and using the PEOS framework mentioning "early marriage and readiness to be a parent" "early marriage" "risk factor for early marriage on adolescent reproductive readiness" "reproductive health in children who marry early" "toddler development in early marriage". Five databases were used in this study: Willey, Science Direct, Pubmed, Proquest, and Google Scholar. The data selection was conducted using a flowchart prism and critical appraisal tool of Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). Result: Based on the search of 486 articles, there were ten articles relevant to the purpose of this study and hence included in scoping review. Three themes were then selected based on the mapping results considering role and health of young mothers, toddlers' condition, environment and economy. Conclusion: Children born to adolescent mothers tend to have poor nutrition and development, such as developmental delay, anemia, and stunting. This is due to both mothers' developing psychology and body, so they are most likely not ready to look after the children and family. Keyword: early marriage toddler development in early marriage impact of early marriage child mental healthThis open-access article is under the CC-BY-SA license. Kata kunci:early marriage toddler development in early marriage the impact of early marriage child mental health