Trends and factors associated with repeated adolescent pregnancies in Tanzania from 2004-2016 : Evidence from tanzania demographic and health surveys
Ngoda, Octavian Aron ; Mboya, Innocent Baltazar LU
; Mahande, Michael Johnson
; Msuya, Sia Emmanuel
and Renju, Jenny
(2021)
In Pan African Medical Journal
40.
- Abstract
Introduction: a repeated pregnancy represents a failure of health and social systems to educate and provide the necessary services and skills to ensure adolescent girls do not experience any further unwanted pregnancies during this young age. We aimed to determine trends and factors associated with repeated adolescent pregnancies in Tanzania 2004-2016. Methods: an analytical cross-sectional study was conducted using secondary data from Tanzania demographic and health surveys of the years 2004-2005, 2010 and 2015-2016 among adolescent mothers aged 15 to 19 years. Data analysis was performed using STATA version 15 and considered the complex survey design. The Poisson regression model was used to estimate prevalence ratios (PR) and 95%... (More)
Introduction: a repeated pregnancy represents a failure of health and social systems to educate and provide the necessary services and skills to ensure adolescent girls do not experience any further unwanted pregnancies during this young age. We aimed to determine trends and factors associated with repeated adolescent pregnancies in Tanzania 2004-2016. Methods: an analytical cross-sectional study was conducted using secondary data from Tanzania demographic and health surveys of the years 2004-2005, 2010 and 2015-2016 among adolescent mothers aged 15 to 19 years. Data analysis was performed using STATA version 15 and considered the complex survey design. The Poisson regression model was used to estimate prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals for factors associated with repeated adolescent pregnancy. Results: the proportion of repeated adolescent pregnancies increased from 15.8% in 2004/2005 to 18.6% in 2010, then to 18.8% in 2015/2016. Adolescents who delivered their first pregnancy at home (APR: 1.36, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.78) and who started sexual activity before 15 years of age (APR: 1.80, 95% CI: 1.40, 2.31) were likely repeated adolescent pregnancy. In contrast, adolescents who used contraception (APR: 0.52, 95% CI: 0.34, 0.81) had a lower prevalence of repeated adolescent pregnancies. Conclusion: the prevalence of repeated adolescent pregnancies has increased and remains unacceptably high. Adolescents who had low education delivered their first pregnancy at home and were non-contraceptive users need to be targeted in policies and programs for the prevention of repeated adolescent pregnancies.
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- author
- Ngoda, Octavian Aron
; Mboya, Innocent Baltazar
LU
; Mahande, Michael Johnson
; Msuya, Sia Emmanuel
and Renju, Jenny
- publishing date
- 2021-09-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- Prevalence, Repeated adolescent pregnancy, Risk factors, Trends
- in
- Pan African Medical Journal
- volume
- 40
- article number
- 162
- publisher
- African Field Epidemiology Network
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85120610102
- pmid:34970404
- ISSN
- 1937-8688
- DOI
- 10.11604/pamj.2021.40.162.29021
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: Funding: this study was supported by Welcome Trust through the sub-Saharan African Consortium of Applied Biostatistics (SSACAB). The funders did not have any role or influence in the design of the study, data collection, analysis, or interpretation of the results and the development of the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © Octavian Aron Ngoda et al.
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