Factors Affecting Unwanted Pregnancy in Adolescent Girls Nakhon Phanom Province

Abstract

     This research was a descriptive research to study factors affecting unintended pregnancy among adolescent girls. Nakhon Phanom Province The sample is Adolescent girls in Nakhon Phanom Province were 3,698 people divided into 1,432 formerly pregnant and 2,266 non-pregnant groups. The research tools were general information questionnaires. A questionnaire on factors affecting pregnancy in adolescent girls and willing to participate in the research. The study was conducted between April and August 2018 for a total period of 5 months. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, namely frequency, percentage, mean, comparison and size between population variables. Tests for differences in proportions were tested with Chi-square statistics. Significance was set at P<0.05. Prevalence ratios were calculated. Confidence intervals were 95% (95% confidence intervals). ) using log binomial regression. In addition, statistically significant factors from the bivariate analysis were selected into the final equation for the adjusted multivariate model.

     The study found that Factors Affecting Pregnancy in Adolescent Girls when comparing personal factors, knowledge factors and attitudes Controlling for characteristics equally, it was found that there were three variables that predicted unwanted pregnancy: adolescent girls who did not live with their parents were 1.53 times more likely to become pregnant (95% CI, 1.12). -2.08) Female adolescents with a positive attitude on sexual intercourse and pregnancy prevention at a low level had a 1.33-fold chance of having an unintended pregnancy (95% CI 1.08-1.64). The severity of teenage pregnancies is low. 1.62 times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy (95% CI 1.29-2.03)