Correlates of Unintended Pregnancy Among Senior Secondary School Students in Rivers South-East Senatorial District, Rivers State, Nigeria
Keywords:
Correlates, Pregnancy, Unintended, Students, South-EastAbstract
This study examined the correlates of unintended pregnancy among senior secondary school students in Rivers South-East Senatorial District. A cross-sectional research design was adopted. The population for the study consisted of eight thousand, and eighty-four (8,084) girls in public senior secondary schools in South-East Senatorial District. The sample size for this study was 1,143. A multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted. The instrument for data collection in this study was a structured questionnaire titled “Correlates of Unintended Pregnancy Questionnaire (CoUP-Q)” with a reliability coefficient of 0.79. The data analysis was done with the aid of the Statistical Product for Service Solution (SPSS) version 27.0, using Biserial correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study revealed that, there was a significant positive relationship between unintended pregnancy and peer pressure (N = 1127, r = 0.17, p<0.05); parent-child communication (N = 1127, r = 0.54, p<0.05), and social media use (N = 1127, r = 0.21, p<0.05). It was concluded that, the correlates of both unintended pregnancy are deeply rooted in multifaceted social factors. It was recommended among others that parents should closely monitor and get acquainted with the peers of their adolescent children and be ready to share sexual information with them.
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