Unintended Pregnancy During COVID-19 Pandemic Among Women Attending Antenatal Care in Northwest Ethiopia: Magnitude and Associated Factors

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Table 1 Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Study Participants Northwest Ethiopia; 2020 (n=424)

Characteristics	Frequency	Percentage
Age of woman in year
15–19	22	5.2
20–34	262	61.8
35–49	140	33
Religion
Orthodox	309	72.9
Muslim	98	23.1
Others*	17	4
Residency
Rural	274	64.6
Urban	150	35.4
Marital status
Married	384	9.6
Others**	40	9.4
Educationalstatus of woman
Has no formal education	239	56.4
Grade 1–8	49	11.6
Grade 9and above	136	32.1
Occupational Status of women
Farmer	129	30.4
Housewife	21	5
Private employee	81	19.1
Government employee	158	37.3
Others***	35	8.2

Notes: Others*=Catholic and protestant; Other**=Single, divorced, widowed; Other***=Student, daily laborer.

Figure 1 Magnitude of unintended pregnancy during COVID-19 pandemic among women attending antenatal care.

Table 2 Bivariable and Multivariable Logistic Regression Analysis of Factors Associated with Unintended Pregnancy Among Women Attending Antenatal Care

Variables	Unintended Pregnancy		COR 95% CI	AOR 95% CI
	Yes	No
Age				NA
15–19	11	11	1
20–34	117	145	1.3(0.8–1.9)*
35–49	72	68	1.1(0.4–2.6)**
Residency				NA
Rural	135	139	1
Urban	65	85	0.7(0.5–1.1)***
Education of women				NA
No formal education	89	150	1
Grade 1–8	28	21	1.1(0.6–2.2)
Grade 9 and above	83	53	2.6(1.7–4.1)***
Exposure to community education
Yes	23	201	1	1
No	49	151	2.8(1.6–4.8)***	2.2(1.1–4)**
Decision maker for family planning service
Primarily by women	16	208	1	1
Other than by woman	49	151	4.2(2.3–7.7)***	2.9(1.5–5.7)***
Bad obstetric history
Yes	28	196	1	1
No	51	149	2.3(1.4–3.9)***	2.3(1.3–4.1)**
Pregnancy related complication
Yes	7	217	1	1
No	33	167	6.1(2.6–14.1)***	5.4(2.2–13)***
Health care provider support
Yes	58	166	1	1
No	80	119	1.9(1.2—2.9)***	2.4(1.4–3.9)**

Notes: NA=not have association to outcome variable 1: reference category,*=0.05<p<0.2, **=0.001<p<0.05, ***=p<0.001.

Abbreviations: COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.