Unintended pregnancy And assocated Factors Among Ever pregnant women in Bita Woreda,kafa zone,southwest ethiopia

Abstract

BACKGROUND: - Unintended pregnancy is an important public health problem of women of child bearing age, because of their negative outcomes on health and of social for both mothers and children. Unintended pregnancy contributes to high maternal mortality and morbidity in Ethiopia, a country striving to reduce Maternal Mortality. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to determine the magnitude of unintended pregnancy and identify associated factors among ever pregnant women in Bitta woreda, Southwest Ethiopia. METHODS: A community based cross sectional study was conducted among 770 randomly selected women of reproductive age group (15-49 years) who had been ever pregnant. A multistage sampling technique was used to select study participants. Data were checked for completeness, consistency, coded and entered into Epidata (version 3.1) and exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Univarate, bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to analyze the data. RESULT: The overall prevalence of unintended pregnancy was 36.5 % (26% for mistimed and 10.5% for unwanted). Unintended pregnancy was associated with travel time to family planning service area (AOR=2.23(1.37-3.63)), modern contraceptive practice (AOR=2.43(1.22-4.86)), perceived women‘s autonomy (AOR=0.47(0.31-0.72)), parity (AOR=5.52(2.50-12.20)) and with ideal number of children (AOR=0.15(0.08-0.31)). CONCLUSION: A significant prevalence of unintended pregnancy was observed in the study population. Factors that found to have association with unintended pregnancy were travel time to family planning service area, modern contraceptive practice, perceived women‘s autonomy, parity and ideal number of children.