To keep or not to keep? Decision making in adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, Ghana.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Jamestown, an urban coastal slum in Accra, Ghana, has one of the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the country. We sought to understand the decision (to keep or terminate) factors and experiences surrounding adolescent pregnancies. METHODS:Thirty semi-structured indepth interviews were carried out among adolescents (aged 13-19 years) who had been pregnant at least once. Half of these were adolescent mothers and the other half had at least one past experience of induced abortion. A pretested and validated questionnaire to assess the awareness and use of contraception in adolescent participants was also administered. To aid social contextualization, semi-structured in depth interviews were carried out among 23 purposively selected stakeholders. RESULTS:The main role players in

SUBMITTER: Engelbert Bain L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726415 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature