ATTITUDE OF ADOLESCENT MOTHERS REGARDING TEENAGE PREGNANCY
- M.Sc. Nursing Final Year Student, Teerthanker Mahaveer College Of Nursing, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad.
- Professor, Teerthanker Mahaveer College of Nursing, Teerthanker Mahaveer University.
- Principal, Teerthanker Mahaveer College of Nursing, Teerthanker Mahaveer University.
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Teenage pregnancy is a pregnancy in women under the age of 20 years and it is a socioeconomic challenge and a public health problem. Every day in developing countries, 20,000 girls under age 18 give birth. This amount to 7.3 million births a year. If that all pregnancies included among them adolescent pregnancy is much higher. Teenage pregnancy rate is high in India that is 62 per 1000 women in the age group of 15-19 years. Statistics show that teenage pregnancy is higher in India other than other countries like in UK 24 per 1000 women and in US were 42 per 1000 women. To explore the attitude of adolescent mothers regarding teenage pregnancy. A qualitative approach was used for the study. Phenomenological design used in this study. The study was conducted in selected Hospital at Moradabad among 10 adolescent mothers in between the age of 18-19 years using convenient sampling technique. In depth interview conducted to collect the data by using semi structured open ended questionnaire to explore the attitude of adolescent mothers regarding teenage pregnancy. Analysis of the data done by content thematic analysis. Adolescent mothers are having the attitude that early pregnancy is a negative event with consequences such as unemployment , limits in education and reduced parental skills. Majority of adolescent mothers were not accepting the early pregnancy and it occurs due to husband and family pressure. A few of adolescent mothers have positive attitude regarding teenage pregnancy. The main conclusion of this study that identified some factors which caused teenage pregnancy such as husband and family pressure, lack of education, cultural constraints and lack of assertiveness. Teenage pregnancy is a public health problems. So some strategies must be build up for preventing teenage pregnancy by increasing the awareness of adolescent mothers regarding contraception methods. These kind of strategies can prevent the teenage pregnancy will also effect on HIV and other sexual transmitted disease.
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Sonam Tomar, Kavitha Mole PJ and N V Munninarayanappa. (2017); ATTITUDE OF ADOLESCENT MOTHERS REGARDING TEENAGE PREGNANCY, Int. J. of Adv. Res., 5 (05), 1889-1897, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4325
TEERTHANKER MAHAVEER COLLEGE OF NURSING, TEERTHANKER MAHAVEER UNIVERSITY, MORADABAD, U.P.
