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| Title |
Prevalence and correlates of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Women's Health, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12905-015-0221-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Samuel H. Nyarko |
| Abstract |
Adolescence is a critical stage in the life course and evidence suggests that even though contraceptive use has been steadily increasing among women in Ghana over the past years, contraceptive prevalence and determinants among female adolescents is quite lacking. This paper examines the prevalence and correlates of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana. The paper used data from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health survey. Bivariate analysis was carried out to determine the contraceptive prevalence among female adolescents while logistic regression analysis was applied to examine the correlates of female adolescent contraceptive use. The study founded that female adolescent contraceptive use was significantly determined by age of adolescent, education, work status, knowledge of ovulatory cycle, visit of health facility and marital status. This has implications for adolescent sexual and reproductive health programmes in Ghana. It is therefore essential to intensify girl child education and strengthen the provision of family planning information and services for female adolescents in the country. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 586 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 581 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 125 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 112 | 19% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 35 | 6% |
| Lecturer | 34 | 6% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 5% |
| Other | 63 | 11% |
| Unknown | 188 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 156 | 27% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 100 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 61 | 10% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 13 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 2% |
| Other | 49 | 8% |
| Unknown | 197 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 March 2023.
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#3,187,344
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Outputs from BMC Women's Health
#347
of 1,936 outputs
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#42,431
of 267,552 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Women's Health
#5
of 24 outputs
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