| dc.description.abstract | Adolescent pregnancies is a global problem that occurs in high, middle- and low-income countries. Uganda has one of the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The leading cause of death and disability among Ugandan female adolescents aged 15 through 19 years are pregnancy complications, unsafe abortions and child birth. Adolescents aged 15 through 19 are twice likely to die during pregnancy or child birth as those over age 20. Therefore, this current study aimed at examining the related factors contributing to teenage pregnancy in Eastern Uganda as the main objective. The study used secondary data from UDHS 2016. A sample size of 1,017 teenagers from Eastern Uganda Was considered and data was analyzed using STATA 15 software at three levels “Univar ate analysis which included frequency distribution tables, bi-variate analysis which included the measure of association using the chi2 p-value and multivariate analysis using the logistic regression”
The prevalence of teenage pregnancy in the Eastern Uganda was 8.55%. Among the teenagers who participated in the survey, results indicated that a larger proportion of the teenagers never had sex at 48.43%, a larger proportion of teenagers (27.2%) came from the poorer income families, a larger proportion of the teenagers (36.21%) where Anglicans, majority (74.41%) were never in union, majority of the teenagers (88.54%) had no knowledge regarding any method of contraceptive and the majority of the teenagers got to know about contraceptive from other source (91.03%). at the bi-variate analysis, socio-economic, demographic factors and knowledge and awareness of contraceptive were significantly associated with teenage pregnancy. Place of residence, wealth index, age at first sex, age at first cohabitation, and knowledge of contraceptive were associated with teenage pregnancy. Logistic regression analysis showed that wealth index and marital status were the only determining factor for teenage pregnancy in Eastern Uganda.
The researcher therefore recommends; parents should be motivated to be involved in sex education and support for their teenagers, teenagers from 12 years of age should be taught and encouraged to use contraceptives regardless of sexual activity or not, sex education and the use of contraceptives should be taught starting from ordinary level of education, encouraging parents to work had so that they can provide the basic needs to their children and even Strict policies against child should be seen effective rather than being implemented. | en_US |
