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Health and Social Problems of Teenage Pregnancy and Future Childbearing in Amassoma Community, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

机译:尼日利亚巴耶尔萨州Amassoma社区青少年怀孕和未来生育的健康和社会问题

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This study examined the health and social problems of teenage pregnancy and future childbearing in Amassoma community. Three hundred pregnant and breastfeeding teenagers (150 pregnant teenager and 150 breastfeeding teenage mothers) whose ages averaged 15.36 years participated in the study. The study is aimed at exploring the health and social problems of teenage pregnancy and future childbearing. A descriptive study designed with self-structured interview guide and observations were used for the purpose of data collection and analysis. The result indicated the pregnant teenagers and breastfeeding teenage mothers complained of high poverty rate, misconception about contraceptives use, sexual harassments, ignorance, low education, marital instability, early marriage, sexual abuse, modernization, religion, culture among other things as causes while medical problems reported include poor eating habits, difficulty in child birth, anaemia, depression, threatened abortion, premature delivery, vesico virginal fistula, high blood pressure, maternal and child mortality and haemorrage. Furthermore low level of education, unstable marriage, poverty, financial dependency, neglect, lack of job skills are among the social problems as well as health outcomes of teenage pregnancy. It was found that pregnant teenagers/breastfeeding teenagers who married received good psycho-social support and good health than single/divorced pregnant/breastfeeding teenage mothers. The result also showed that health education significantly influenced their knowledge about contraceptives. Similarly, breastfeeding teenage mothers who had good psycho-social support and better health status were more than pregnant teenagers without psycho-social support hence poor health. It was also deduced that the health status of the pregnant teenagers and breastfeeding teenage mothers are related to age, hence as the teenagers get older, their health get improved and there is reduction in pregnancy complication. It was revealed that the pregnant teenagers and breastfeeding teenage mothers? accessibility to nursing care and health care facility enhanced their health status. Furthermore, it was revealed that a proportion of pregnant teenagers/breastfeeding teenage mothers in low socio-economic status spent higher proportion of their live in poor health with little economic support from the household. Similarly, health education significantly enhanced pregnant teenagers? level of coping with the stress of teenage pregnancy.
机译:这项研究调查了Amassoma社区青少年怀孕和未来生育的健康和社会问题。这项平均年龄为15.36岁的300名孕妇和母乳喂养的青少年(150名孕妇和150名母亲的母乳喂养)参加了这项研究。该研究旨在探讨青少年怀孕和未来生育的健康和社会问题。描述性研究设计了具有自我结构的访谈指南和观察结果,用于数据收集和分析。结果表明,怀孕的青少年和母乳喂养的母亲抱怨贫困率高,对避孕药具使用的误解,性骚扰,无知,文化程度低,婚姻不稳定,早婚,性虐待,现代化,宗教,文化等都是医疗原因报告的问题包括不良的饮食习惯,分娩困难,贫血,抑郁,先兆流产,早产,膀胱初次瘘管,高血压,母婴死亡率和出血。此外,受教育程度低,婚姻不稳定,贫穷,经济依赖,忽视,缺乏工作技能等都是社会问题以及少女怀孕对健康的影响。研究发现,已婚的怀孕少女/母乳喂养的少女比单身/离婚的孕妇/母乳喂养的少女母亲获得了良好的心理社会支持和健康状况。结果还表明,健康教育极大地影响了他们对避孕的了解。同样,拥有良好社会心理支持和健康状况的母乳喂养未成年母亲比没有心理社会支持的怀孕少女更多,因此健康状况较差。还可以推断出,怀孕少女和母乳喂养少女的健康状况与年龄有关,因此,随着少女年龄的增长,他们的健康状况得到改善,妊娠并发症也有所减少。据透露,怀孕的少女和母乳喂养的少女母亲?护理和保健设施的可及性改善了他们的健康状况。此外,据揭示,社会经济地位低下的怀孕少女/母乳喂养少女母亲的一部分生活在健康状况不佳的家庭中,而家庭的经济支持却很少。同样,健康教育显着增强了怀孕的青少年?应对青少年怀孕压力的水平。

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