Consequences of teenage pregnancy among Chepang women in Korak VDC in Chitwan

Abstract

Teenage Pregnancy as “any pregnancy from a girl who is 10-19 years of age”, the age being defined as her age at the time the baby is born. The objective of the study to identify the consequences of teenage pregnancy among the Chepang women in Korak village development committee in Chitwan. This study design was descriptive, cross sectional and 148 respondents were selected randomly and interviewed by using semi-structured questionnaires. Data entry was done by using Epi data and analyzed by SPSS. The study finding revealed that, majority of the respondents 56.1% had got married before the age of 16 years, 58.1% gave first child birth the age of 17-19 years and 57.1% had 1-3 numbers of children. Similarly, 10.1% had preterm birth, 18.2% had history of miscarriage and 99.3% had delivered at home. There was significant relationship between the age of child birth with complications of teenage pregnancy which gave birth before term (p=0.020) and women having ≥4 children had the difficulty to control urine during coughing and sneezing (<0.001). the study concluded that there is a need of public awareness programme which can be done through orientation and training regarding reproductive health.