Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study

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Autor(a) principal: Vasconcelos, Alexandra
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Bandeira, Nelson, Sousa, Swasilanne, Pereira, Filomena, Machado, Maria do Céu
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/52614
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spelling Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based studyAdolescent pregnancyFamily planningNewborns’ danger signsSao Tome and Principe© The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativeco mmons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.Background: Pregnancy starts early in Sao Tome and Principe (STP) and rates of adolescent pregnancy increased 16% in recent years reaching a 27.3% prevalence. This study aimed to understand the pregnant adolescents' characteristics and factors associated to early childbearing in STP. Methods: A cross-sectional hospital-based study was undertaken in Hospital Dr. Ayres de Menezes between 2016 and 2018 with a randomly selected total sample size of 518 mothers. Mothers' clinical records and interviews were used to collect relevant data. The results among adolescent girls 19 years of age and younger (n=104) were compared to adult mothers (n=414). A subgroup analysis of adolescent pregnant girls was also conducted. Statistically significance was considered at a p-value ≤0.05. Data were analysed using SPSS software. Results: The study revealed that 20.1% were adolescent mothers. Pregnancy at a very early age (≤15) was experienced by 7.7%. The characteristics founded to be positively associated with adolescent pregnancy were: 1) being single (OR 0.39, 95% CI=0.2-0.6, p≤0.001); 2) having a relationship with the baby´s father for a period of less than one year (OR 0.16, 95% CI=0.09-0.3, p≤0.001); 3) lack of the baby´s father support (OR 0.41, 95% CI=0.2-0.7, p=0.002); 4) not using a contraceptive method (OR 0.33, 95% CI=0.2-0.5, p≤0.001), and 5) inappropriate knowledge concerning the identification of the newborn's danger signs (OR 15.7, 95% CI= 9-26, p≤0.001). Comparing pregnancy at very early age (≤15) to late (>18 and ≤19) adolescents, main differences were that previous contraceptives were not used at all in girls ≤15 years compared to 9.8% of late childbearing subgroup. Conclusions: Unfavourable factors linked to adolescent pregnancies were absence of a contraceptive method, getting pregnant in the early first months of one relationship and to be single. Gap age difference between adolescents' partners, polygamous sexual relationships, previous abortion and having already other living children were also identified. Adolescents also had inappropriate knowledge of the identification of the newborns' danger signs. Before being sexually active, adolescents critically need sexual and reproductive health information provided by a healthy community and through school programmes on sexual education. Schools should promote girl's empowerment and awareness and, at the same time, reinforce boy's role in fatherhood and shared responsibilities. The government should work on the prevention of early sexual initiation, as well as on improving family planning programmes to protect them from pregnancy with special focus for the very early adolescent girls. None of these goals can be achieved if the government doesn't, simultaneously, improve educational and economic opportunities for girls.AV was supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) (https://www.fct.pt/index.phtml.pt/), grant number SFRH/BD/117037/2016.ElsevierRepositório da Universidade de LisboaVasconcelos, AlexandraBandeira, NelsonSousa, SwasilannePereira, FilomenaMachado, Maria do Céu2022-04-29T16:00:41Z20222022-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/52614engBMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2022 Apr 15;22(1):33210.1186/s12884-022-04632-z1471-2393info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:57:56Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/52614Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:03:41.345815Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study
title Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study
spellingShingle Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study
Vasconcelos, Alexandra
Adolescent pregnancy
Family planning
Newborns’ danger signs
Sao Tome and Principe
title_short Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study
title_full Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study
title_fullStr Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study
title_full_unstemmed Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study
title_sort Adolescent pregnancy in Sao Tome and Principe: a cross-sectional hospital-based study
author Vasconcelos, Alexandra
author_facet Vasconcelos, Alexandra
Bandeira, Nelson
Sousa, Swasilanne
Pereira, Filomena
Machado, Maria do Céu
author_role author
author2 Bandeira, Nelson
Sousa, Swasilanne
Pereira, Filomena
Machado, Maria do Céu
author2_role author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vasconcelos, Alexandra
Bandeira, Nelson
Sousa, Swasilanne
Pereira, Filomena
Machado, Maria do Céu
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Adolescent pregnancy
Family planning
Newborns’ danger signs
Sao Tome and Principe
topic Adolescent pregnancy
Family planning
Newborns’ danger signs
Sao Tome and Principe
description © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativeco mmons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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