Unequal access and use of contraceptives among parenting adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional analysis of demographic and health surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined the divergent patterns, prevalence and correlates of contraceptive use among parenting adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa using the Demographic and Health Survey datasets of 17 countries.

Design

We included a weighted sample of 9488 parenting adolescent girls in our analysis. Current contraceptive use was defined as the use of any methods to delay or avoid getting pregnant at the survey time. We reported the prevalence of any contraceptive use for all countries and used multilevel binary logistic regression analysis to examine the individual and contextual factors associated with contraceptive use.

Outcome measures

Contraceptive use.

Results

We found an overall contraceptive prevalence of 27.12% (CI 27.23% to 28.03%) among parenting adolesc

SUBMITTER: Ahinkorah BO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8461275 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature