UNINTENDED PREGNANCY AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ATENATAL CARE AT BAKO TIBE DISTRICT, WEST SHOA ZONE, OROMIA REGION, ETHIOPIA.

Abstract

Introduction-A pregnancy is most defined as unintended if it is either unwanted that means occurred when no children or no more children were desired, sometimes termed “number failures”), or is mistimed at the time of conception (occurred earlier than desired but would have been desired at a later time, sometimes termed “timing failures”).However, there was limited information in the study area that describes the magnitude of unintended pregnancy and associated factors among pregnant mother. Objective- The objective of this study was to assess the magnitude of unintended pregnancy and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care at Bako Tibe District West Shoa zone, Oromia region from March 1 to April 1, 2019. Methods-.Institutional based cross sectional study was conducted. The sample size for the study was 612 pregnant women. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection and the data was collected using interview. The collected data was checked for completeness, edited, coded manually and entered into Epi Data version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 20.00 for analysis. Descriptive analysis was done by computing proportions and summary statistics. Bivariate and multivariate analysis was done to see the association between the outcome variable and each independent variable. Result:- Magnitude of unintended pregnancy was 33.3%; 95%CI (29.8, 37.3). Family size ≥ 6 [AOR=8 95%CI(1.38-46.66)], Women who didn‟t communicate about family planning with her husband[(AOR=2.80; 95%CI: (1.50-5.20)], Parity≥5 [(AOR: 3, 95%CI: (1.34-6.8)], ,showed significant association with unintended pregnancy. Conclusion and recommendation: Parity, family Size, lack of spousal communication showed significant association with unintended pregnancy. Health bureau and health worker should work to scale up communication of couples about fertility and contraceptive issues through peer education and promoting long‐term modern family planning methods