Magnitude of Unintended Pregnancy and Associated Factors Among Pregnant Women in Debre Markos Town, East Gojjam Zone, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Table 1 Socio-Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Pregnant Women in Debre Markos Town (N=580)

Characteristics	Category	Frequency	Percentage	Mean
Age	<24	129	22.2
	25–34	355	61.2
	>34	96	16.6	28.69
Religion	Orthodox	504	86.9
	Muslim	45	7.8
	Protestant	31	5.3
Marital status	Married	439	75.7
	Single	56	9.7
	Not married but living together	41	7.1
	Divorced and widowed	44	7.6
Residence	Urban	529	91.2
	Rural	51	8.8
Educational status	College and above	249	42.9
	Secondary school	150	25.9
	Primary school	104	17.9
	Cannot read and write	77	13.3
Occupation	Housewife	204	35.2
	Private employees	179	30.9
	Student and self-employed	51	8.8
	Government employee	146	25.2
Monthly Income in birr	<500 (15$)	73	12.6
	501–1000 (15$-30$)	117	20.2
	1001–2000 (30$-58$)	120	20.7
	2001–3000 (58$-86$)	160	27.6
	>86$	110	19.0
Ethnicity	Oromo	16	2.8
	Tigre and Gurage	19	3.3
	Amhara	545	94.0
Time to go clinic in minute	<40	366	88.0
	40–79	48	11.5
	>80	2	0.5

Table 2 Reproductive (Obstetric) History of Pregnant Women in Debre Markos Town (N=580)

Characteristics	Category	Frequency	Percent
Stillbirth	Yes	33	5.7
	No	547	94.3
Neonatal death	Yes	9	1.6
	No	571	98.4
Pre-term birth	Yes	13	2.2
	No	567	97.8
Abortion	Yes	48	8.3
	No	532	91.7
Number of abortions	0	532	91.7
	1–2	47	8.1
	3–4	1	0.2
Number of gravidity	1–2	362	62.4
	3–4	162	27.9
	>4	56	9.7
Number of alive children	0	213	36.7
	1–2	276	47.6
	3–4	83	14.3
	>4	8	1.4
Number of parity	0	208	35.9
	1–2	272	46.9
	3–4	83	14.3
	>4	17	2.9

Table 3 Reasons of Unintended Pregnancy and Not Using FP in Debre Markos Town (N= 202)

Characteristics			Frequency	Percentage
Reasons of unintended pregnancy (n=202)	Student	Yes	34	16.8
		No	168	83.2
	Have not enough money	Yes	49	24.3
		No	153	75.7
	Divorced	Yes	14	6.9
		No	188	93.1
	Not married	Yes	45	22.3
		No	157	77.7
	No gap between previous and this pregnancy	Yes	47	23.3
		No	155	76.7
	My husband does not support me	Yes	8	4.0
		No	194	96.0
	Not want more child at all	Yes	35	17.3
		No	167	82.7
Reasons of not using contraceptive (n= 177)	Due to method failure		65	36.7
	Fear of going to clinic		21	11.9
	Because of the far distance of the clinic		5	2.8
	Not get family planning		10	5.6
	Not approved by my religion		11	6.2
	Fear of side effect		27	15.3
	Misuse		38	21.5

Figure 1 Pregnancy intention among pregnant women, in Debre Markos town.

Table 4 Behavioral Characteristics of Pregnant Women in Debre Markos Town

Characteristics		Frequency	Percentage
Use substance	Yes	82	14.1
	No	498	85.9
Alcohol	Yes	65	79.3
	No	17	20.7
Khat	Yes	12	14.6
	No	70	85.4
Cigarette	No	82	100.0
Pornography	No	82	100.0
Other	Yes	7	8.5
	No	75	91.5

Figure 2 Distributions of family planning knowledge among pregnant women.

Figure 3 Intention to use modern contraceptive methods among pregnant women.

Table 5 Multiple Logistic Regressions Analysis for Factors Associated with Unintended Pregnancy

Variables		Status of Pregnancy		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	P value
		Intended	Unintended
Age	≤ 24	64	65	1.55 (0.91, 2.65)	3.1 (1.01,9.33)	0.048*
	25–34	256	99	0.59 (0.37, 0.95)	1.3 (0.52,3.22)	0.58
	≥ 35	58	38	1	1
Marital status	Married	327	112	1	1
	Single	15	41	0.24 (0.13,0.45)	1.86 (0.19,18.45)	0.59
	Not married but living together	18	23	1.89 (0.81,4.39)	2.00 (0.71,5.66)	0.19
	Divorced and widowed	18	26	0.89 (0.37,2.09)	3.90 (1.44,10.53)	0.01*
Gravidity	1–2	250	112	0.23 (0.13,0.42)	0.062 (0.02,0.21)	0.00*
	3–4	109	53	0.25 (0.13,0.47)	0.14 (0.04,0.43)	0.00*
	>4	19	37	1	1
Decision on FP	Myself	105	82	0.16 (0.10,0.65)	0.37 (0.17,0.80)	0.012*
	Me and my husband	201	25	1	1

Note: *P-value significant at level of P<0.05.

Abbreviations: COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio.