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Unwanted Pregnancy and Induced Abortion Among Female Youths: A Case Study of Temeke District
Full text linkUnwanted pregnancy is the major cause of induced abortion, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in the world. Hundreds of thousands of women become pregnant without intending to, and many of them decide to end the pregnancies into abortion. Youth are more susceptible to unwanted pregnancies; this may be explained by the fact that premarital sexual activity is very common and reported to be on the rise in all parts of the world. This could be explained by the fact that youths are facing various problems with regards to their reproductive health needs including contraceptive use e.g. lack of information, misinformation, fear of side effects as well as social, cultural and economic barriers in accessing the family planning services, economic problems, violence as well as cultural and social beliefs. The study assessed the magnitude of unwanted pregnancies and induced abortion among female youths aged 15-24 years in Temeke district. Specifically the study was trying to examine the association between the magnitude of unwanted pregnancies and induced abortion among youths with other factors like contraceptive knowledge and use, socio demographic characteristics, socio cultural factors and sexual factors. Methodology : A cross sectional study, was conducted among 454 youths aged 15-24 years in Temeke district in Dar es Salaam using a Semi structured questionnaire , the respondents were being interviewed after they or their parents/guardian give a consent to the Prime investigator or research assistants. The mean age for fist sexual intercourse was 18 years. 57 % of the study respondents agreed to have used contraceptives, 33 % of all the pregnancies had unwanted pregnancy and 26 % of them ended up into abortions, out of all the abortions 87 % were induced. Out of all the abortions 74 % were the result of an unwanted pregnancy with P value of 0.001.Single youths were found to have more likely hood of having unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion with the proportion of 78 % (P=0.001) and 59 % (P=0.001) respectively. Students were more likely to have unwanted pregnancy, 83% (P =0.001) and induced abortion with the proportion of 83% (P =0.004). The prevalence of unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion were high, and most of the induced abortion was the result of unwanted pregnancy. There was low utilization of contraceptives among female youths but its association with the rate of unwanted pregnancy was found not to be statistically significant. Female youths who were single, unmarried and students were found to have high likelihood of having unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion. I would recommend that the Ministry of health and Social welfare in partnership with other implementing partners , local and international to focus their strategies to the ins school programming , addressing the need of the in school female youth on reproductive health issues. Different partners in partnership with the Government to address the issue of unemployment among female youths, to improve their economic status, hence for them to be able to take care of themselves as well as their children and to conduct a qualitative study in the community especially rural settings in order for them to have an in depth discussion with regard to unwanted pregnancies and induced abortion in order to compliment the findings from his study. This is because this study was conducted in semi urban area of which the results could be different from the rural settings
Sosialpsykologisk atferdsteori: Praktiske konsekvenser for helseundevisning i skolen
No full textMålet med hälsoundervisning i skolan är bland annat att påverka elevernas hälsorelaterade beteende. I denna artikel visar Knut-Inge Klepp hur man med utgångspunkt i generella modeller för beteende kan analysera faktorer som påverkar de ungas hälsobeteende. Med exempel från en kursplan om näring och kosthåll för åk 7 visar han hur elevernas eget engagemang och kunskaper kan utnyttjas. Lärarens roll i undervisningen blir att vara initiativtagare, tillrättaläggare, vägledare och inspiratör, samtidigt som läraren kan hjälpa eleverna till att tillägna sig sociala och praktiska färdigheter nödvändiga för att kunna välja hälsobefrämjande handlingsalternativ
Comparing condom use with different types of partners : evidence from national HIV surveys in Africa
Full text linkBased on nationally representative samples from 13 Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper reinforces and expands previous findings that condom use in general is low in this region, men report using condoms more frequently than women, and unmarried individuals report they use condoms more frequently than married individuals with their spouse. Based on descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses, the authors also demonstrate to a degree not previously shown in the current literature that married men from most countries report using condoms with extramarital partners about as frequently as unmarried men. However, married women from most countries included use condoms with extramarital partners less frequently than unmarried women. This result is especially troubling because marriage usually ensures regular sexual intercourse, providing more opportunities to pass HIV from extramarital partner to spouse than an unmarried person who may also have multiple partners but not as regular sexual intercourse.Population Policies,Gender and Health,Adolescent Health,HIV AIDS,Gender and Law
Diet Habits Among Youths. Nutritional Education in a Local Community, 1990
No full textThe purpose of the project was to examine the nutritional habits of 7th grade students at four different schools in Bergen. Information was gathered about diets and nutrition, meals, cooking habits, leisure activities, relationship to friends ,alcohol, and school. A postal self-completion form was districuted to 1633 pupils
Diet Habits Among Youths. Nutritional Education in a Local Community, May 1990
No full textThe aim of the project was to map out the eating habits of 7th graders at four schools in Bergen, and develop an education program about diet and nutrition for 7th graders. It has been gathered information about eating habits, meals, cooking, relations to alcohol, spear time activities, relations to friends and school. This dataset is from the second survey of the cohort
Diet Habits Among Youths. Nutritional Education in a Local Community, January 1990
No full textThe aim of the project was to map out the eating habits of 7th graders at four schools in Bergen, and develop an education program about diet and nutrition for 7th graders. It has been gathered information about eating habits, meals, cooking, relations to alcohol, spear time activities, relations to friends and school. This datafile contains data from the third survey of the cohort. (They were in 8th grade.
Diet Habits Among Youths. Nutritional Education in a Local Community, January 1989
No full textThe aim of the project was to map out the eating habits of 7th graders at four schools in Bergen, and develop an education program about diet and nutrition for 7th graders. It has been gathered information about eating habits, meals, cooking, relations to alcohol, spare time activities, relations to friends and school
Diet Habits Among Youths. Nutritional Education in a Local Community, September 1990
No full textThe aim of the project was to map out the eating habits of 9th graders at four schools in Bergen, and develop an education program about diet and nutrition for 9th graders. It has been gathered information about eating habits, meals, cooking, relations to alcohol, spear time activities, relations to friends and school. This datafile contains results from blood samples of some of the pupils in the cohort
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