The Effect of Teenage Pregnancy on Adolescents in Amassoma Community of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State

Maliki, Agnes Ebi

doi:10.5539/ass.v8n1p62

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“…This confirms the findings by Maliki (2014). Premarital sex is a taboo in the area studied, yet adolescent boys and girls indulge in it.…”

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“…The result of which include rising incidence of female prostitution, teenage pregnancies and broken homes. According to the findings of Maliki (2014), effects and causes of teenage pregnancy include low socio-economic status, cultural factors, permissiveness of parents, drop in moral values and teenagers' sexual behaviour. The results of this study showed that teenage respondents disagreed that they could have sex because of money (48%) though 74% of the male respondents agreed that they could have sex for money.…”

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Sex Education and Teenage Pregnancy in the Niger Delta: Implications for Secondary School Biology Curriculum in Nigeria

Salami

2015

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Previous studies show that when Nigerian adolescent girls, especially those in the Niger Delta, become pregnant they drop out of school and may never go back again but become low level labourers or miscreants to the society. This study investigated the extent of teenagers involvement in sex, pre-disposition of females to pregnancy in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, the level of readiness of parents to help their teenage daughters if they become pregnant, the level of sex education in secondary schools, the content and context of sex education in the Biology curriculum and how it is reflected in the National policy on education and also examined the need to review the policy vis-à-vis sex education. The study adopted a survey design using Likert-response questionnaires to elicit responses from students, parents, secondary school teenagers and Biology teachers. The results of the analysis using frequency counts, percentages, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that teenage pregnancy is on the increase in the Niger Delta, sex education is not given a place of priority in the Education National Policy, teachers shy away from teaching it in schools, parents do not support sex education in schools but there is an urgent need to incorporate it into the Biology curriculum.

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“…This confirms the findings by Maliki (2014). Premarital sex is a taboo in the area studied, yet adolescent boys and girls indulge in it.…”

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confidence: 90%

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Sex Education and Teenage Pregnancy in the Niger Delta: Implications for Secondary School Biology Curriculum in Nigeria

Salami

2015

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“…Most studies establish a cause-and-effect relationship between teenage pregnancy and inadequate antenatal care [ 8 – 10 ], low birth weight, and preterm birth [ 5 , 6 , 11 ]. On the hand, such a relationship is less obvious in adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia, cesarean delivery, vaginal instrumental delivery and postpartum hemorrhage [ 12 ].…”

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Prevalence and outcome of teenage hospital births at the buea health district, South West Region, Cameroon

Egbe

Omeichu²,

Halle-Ekane

et al. 2015

Reprod Health

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BackgroundTeenage pregnancy is a high-risk condition that requires skilled antenatal care for good outcome. World estimates in 2008 report about 16 million births to adolescent mothers, most of them occurring in low and middle-income countries. In Cameroon, about 12 % of all births are to adolescent mothers. This study determines the prevalence of hospital teenage deliveries in the Buea Health District and compares the delivery outcomes and demographic characteristics between pregnant teenage mothers (14–19) and adult mothers (20–29 years). We also identify factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes.MethodsWe undertook a retrospective study of case files of patients who gave birth in the Buea Regional Hospital during the period 2009–2012, to determine the prevalence of hospital-delivered teenage pregnancies in the BHR. We also undertook a, cross-sectional study to compare the outcomes of 148 singleton adolescent births with 360 adult births in three health facilities in the Buea Health District during the period March 1 to August 31, 2013.ResultsThe prevalence of teenage births was 13.3 %. The adverse fetal outcomes imputable to adolescent births were low birth weight (<2,500 g) (OR, 2.79; 95 % CI, 1.28-6.09), preterm babies (<37 weeks) (OR: 1.85; 95 % CI, 1.01-3.41), low 5 min Apgar score < 7 (OR: 1.66; 95 % CI, 0.91-3.0). Adverse maternal outcomes associated with teenage pregnancies were mainly perineal tear (OR, 1.6; 95 % CI, 0.95-2.7). Teenage births were not discovered in any significant way to cause preeclampsia/eclampsia, episiotomy, premature rupture of membranes and caesarean section. Maternal factors like age and gravidity were discovered to lead to adverse fetal outcomes in adolescents, while maternal factors like age, unemployment, marital status and gravidity were, for their part, directly responsible for adverse maternal outcomes in adolescents.ConclusionTeenage pregnancies are quite prevalent in the Buea Health District, and hospital delivery common. Adolescent pregnancies are more likely to lead to adverse fetal and maternal outcomes than adult pregnancies.

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“…It is believed that pregnancy can take place as soon as a female gets to the age of puberty, with menarche (first menstrual period) normally taking place around age 12 or 13 (Onyiriuka, et al, 2012). Sixty percent (60%) of girls have their first sexual intercourse before their 13th birthday (Guttmacher Institute, 2004 andMaliki, 2012). Studies have shown that substantial numbers of teenagers have a positive or ambivalent attitude towards pregnancy (Jaccard et al, 2003, Condon et al, 2001, Stevens-Simon et al, 1996.…”

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Logistic Regression on the Primiparal Age of Women in Gombe, Gombe State

Kinafa

Mohammed

Abdulkadir

2020

Int. J. Eng. Tech. Mgmt. Res.

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Failure of women to undergo a successful first child delivery is becoming one of the most challenging problem and a major concern to most of our healthcare providers. In this paper, we apply the binary logistic regression analysis to investigate whether age of women at first birth have a relationship with the outcome of their delivery (Success or failure). The data was collected from Gombe Town Maternity and was subjected to analysis. From the result of the analysis, we observed that most of the women at tender age (12-17) are classified to fail (69%) during their first child delivery while most of the women at higher age (19 and above) have a better chance of succeeding during their first parturition. Also, the result shows that the average age at which women ought to conceive successfully is 19 years. The Wald statistics result also shows that the logistic regression model fits the data very well.

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The Effect of Teenage Pregnancy on Adolescents in Amassoma Community of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State

Cited by 7 publications

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Sex Education and Teenage Pregnancy in the Niger Delta: Implications for Secondary School Biology Curriculum in Nigeria

Sex Education and Teenage Pregnancy in the Niger Delta: Implications for Secondary School Biology Curriculum in Nigeria

Prevalence and outcome of teenage hospital births at the buea health district, South West Region, Cameroon

Logistic Regression on the Primiparal Age of Women in Gombe, Gombe State

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