Assessment of Teenage Pregnancy Predictors in Uganda
Abstract
The study focused on the assessment of teenage pregnancy predictors in Uganda. The main
objective of this study was to investigate factors that influence teenage pregnancies in Uganda.
The study was based on data from 4276 teenage girls that responded to the women's
questionnaire in the 2016 UDHS. The sampling frame used was that of the Uganda National
Population and Housing Census (NPHC) provided by UBOS. The study utilized descriptive
statistics as measures of central tendency, correlation tests and logistic regression.
The study revealed that knowledge of contraceptive use was significantly associated with
teenage pregnancy where by teenage girls with knowledge of modern or local methods of
contraception being more likely to get pregnant as compared to the reference group; marital
status was also a significant predictor of teenage pregnancy where by girls that were
married/living with a partner or had ever been married (widowed/divorced/separated) being more
likely to get pregnant as compared to those that had never been in union. In addition to these
predictors, household size was a significant predictor of teenage pregnancy in which teenagers
hailing from smaller households less likely to become pregnant as compared to those from larger
households. And lastly, age at first sex was also found to be significant where girls that had their
first sexual encounter at an older age in their adolescence being more likely to get pregnant
compared to those that had theirs at earlier teen years. The following were not significant
predictors of teenage pregnancy; place of residence, education attainment, sex of household head
and wealth index.
To reduce teenage pregnancy, there is need to; educate parents/guardians on early marriages for
their children, parents of girls from large families should be encouraged to pay more attention to
their children, their friends and whatever they do, girls should be educated more on
contraception, it's use side effects and the like and parents should always be keen and alert in
regards to their children, monitoring them right from childhood.
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