Prevalence of Unwanted Pregnancy and Associated Factors among Women in Reproductive Age Groups at Selected Health Facilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

Background: Unsafe abortions resulting from unintended pregnancies denote an important public health challenge throughout the world. Although various strategies have been used to address this problem unsafe abortion from unwanted pregnancy remained the cause for a significant number of maternal morbidity and mortality.

Assessment of determinant factors of pregnancy termination among women of reproductive age group in Ethiopia: Evidence from 2016 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey

“…Women of secondary and higher schooling were more likely to undergo an abortion [11,[15][16][17]. Other determinants of pregnancy termination include maternal media exposure, contraceptive use, women's autonomy, [10,18], marital status [19,20], birth order, parity [10] and religion [11]. Women who have been exposed to the media and who were contraceptive non-user more are likely to undergo an abortion.…”

Pregnancy History and Associated Factors Among Hawassa University Regular Undergraduate Female Students, Southern Ethiopia

“…In this study married respondents were more likely to have pregnancy compared to respondents who were not married. Unlike studies done in antenatal care unit shows being unmarried was potential exposing factor for unintended pregnancy (2,3,12,14,28,29,32,33). This might be due to respondents who were not married may not have sexual contact in turn they could not have unintended pregnancy.…”

“…It is shown that out of 210 Million pregnancies occurring globally, nearly 80 million of them were unintended each year [2]. Recently, unintended pregnancy in Africa was reported to be 57 per 1000 female university students [3,4]. In Sub-Saharan Africa 14 million unintended pregnancies occur every year, with almost half occurring among women aged 15-24 years [3].…”

“…Recently, unintended pregnancy in Africa was reported to be 57 per 1000 female university students [3,4]. In Sub-Saharan Africa 14 million unintended pregnancies occur every year, with almost half occurring among women aged 15-24 years [3]. In which 17% pregnancies were mistimed, and 8% were unwanted [5].…”

“…Reproductive health-related knowledge gaps among sexually active University female student is an important cause of unintended pregnancy [10][11][12][13]. The outcome of unintended pregnancies is unsafe abortions (3); it is a global social and health burdens [2,3,14]. Death due to risks related with procedure of unsafe abortion is common [2].…”