Reproductive Health volume 20 , Article number: 28 Cite this article. Metrics details. Teenage pregnancies cause serious health, social and economic consequences including death among adolescent girls worldwide. Little was known about the magnitude of teenage pregnancy and its associated factors in Dodoma Tanzania. Therefore, the study aimed at establishing the magnitude and factors associated with teenage pregnancies among adolescents in Dodoma Region Tanzania.
It was a community-based analytical cross-sectional study that included adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 years old. A multistage sampling technique was used to recruit study participants. An interviewer-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect data.
Data were analyzed by using SPSS v Descriptive statistics were used to describe the distribution of the entire study variable while the inferential statistics helped to establish factors associated with teenage pregnancy among adolescent girls and the level of significance was set at two sides of less than 0. After controlling for possible confounders, factors associated with teenage pregnancy were; urban residence [AOR: 3.
This study found a high magnitude of teenage pregnancy among youth in Dodoma. Teenagers who were more likely to teenage pregnancy were those with limited knowledge about sexual and reproductive health living in urban, from families with low economic status, their mothers had a low level of education, from a culture that encourage early marriages, with the influence of peer and who experienced sexual abuse.
An innovative intervention study to come up with a cost-effective strategy to address the challenge of teenage pregnancy in Dodoma is highly recommended. The study is reporting the status of teenage pregnancy among adolescents aged 15—19 years in the Dodoma Region. Dodoma Region is the capital city of Tanzania and it is among the fastest-growing city of Tanzania. The region has the highest population of youth in Tanzania.
