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Prevalence, Associated Factors and Consequences of Unwanted Pregnancy in Iran

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2020
Background: Unwanted pregnancy is a type of unplanned pregnancy that can endanger health of mother and child. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of unwanted pregnancy and its associated factors and consequences in Iran.
Mohammad Esmaeil MOTLAGH, Seiyed Davoud NASROLLAHPOUR SHIRVANI, Zahra HASSANZADEH-ROSTAMI, Farahnaz TORKESTANI, Seyed-Mozaffar RABIEE, Hassan ASHRAFIAN AMIRI, Laleh RADPOOYAN   +6 more
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Prevalence of unwanted pregnancy among Iranian women: an updated meta-analysis

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019
Background Unwanted pregnancy is a global issue with adverse outcomes for the mother, child, family, and society. Previous studies in Iran have reported different prevalence rates for unwanted pregnancy.
Kourosh Sayehmiri, Fariba Ebtekar, Mozhdeh Zarei, Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh   +3 more
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Prevalence of unmet need for contraception and its association with unwanted pregnancy among married women in Angola.

PLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundUnmet need for contraception and unwanted pregnancy are recognised as significant barriers to promoting women's reproductive health and well-being.
Sanni Yaya, Bishwajit Ghose
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Prevalence of unwanted pregnancy in Iranian women: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Reproductive Health, 2019
Background Unwanted pregnancies are considered as one of the most important public health risks. Regarding the importance of the unwanted pregnancy in the country and helping health policy-makers obtain more accurate information on this issue, this study
Rostam Jalali, Masoud Mohammadi, Aliakbar Vaisi-Raygani, Akram Ghobadi, Nader Salari   +4 more
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Inhibitors and Facilitators of Unwanted Adolescent Pregnancy in Iran and the World: A Review [PDF]

Journal of Evidence-Based Care, 2017
Background: Approximately 16 million adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 years and 1 million teenage girls less than 15 years of age become pregnant worldwide annually, and the majority of these pregnancies are unintended.
Farzaneh Rashidi Fakari, Masoumeh Simbar, Vida Ghasemi, Marzieh Saei Gharenaz   +3 more
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Is Your Pregnancy Unwanted or Unhappy? Psychological Correlates of a Cluster of Pregnant Women Who Need Professional Care

Healthcare, 2023
Background: A negative response towards a current pregnancy consists of two elements: unwantedness of and unhappiness about the current pregnancy. Little is clear about whether pregnant women can be categorized in terms of unwantedness and unhappiness as
Yukiko Ohashi, M. Takegata, Satoru Takeda, Ayako Hada, Yuriko Usui, T. Kitamura   +5 more
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Unwanted Teenage Pregnancy and Its Complications: A Narrative Review

Cureus, 2022
Teenage pregnancy may have a huge negative social and medical influence on mothers' and children's health globally. Compared to adult primigravida, young women experience more harmful perinatal problems, such as premature births, neonatal fatalities and ...
Swarupa V. Chakole, Shivani Akre, K. Sharma, Praful Wasnik, Mayur Wanjari   +4 more
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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW: THE EFFECT OF ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR ON UNWANTED PREGNANCY

Indonesian Midwifery and Health Sciences Journal, 2023
One indicator of the country's progress can be seen from the maternal mortality rate in which adolescents are the group of contributors to this figure.
Ach. Fahrizal Amien
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Does unwanted pregnancy lead to adverse health and healthcare utilization for mother and child? Evidence from low- and middle-income countries

International Journal of Public Health, 2020
Objectives Unwanted pregnancy is an important public health concern in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Using a pooled dataset from 48 Demographic Health Surveys conducted in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe ( n  = 494,778), we examined ...
M. Hajizadeh, S. Nghiem
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“Better dead than being mocked”: an anthropological study on perceptions and attitudes towards unwanted pregnancy and abortion in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020
Unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion contribute significantly to the burden of maternal suffering, ill health and death in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This qualitative study examines the vulnerabilities of women and girls regarding unwanted
D. Burtscher, C. Schulte-Hillen, J. Saint-Sauveur, Eva De Plecker, Mohit Nair, J. Arsenijević   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source