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Association between sexual violence and unintended pregnancy among married women in Zambia

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background One of the outcomes of sexual violence is unintended pregnancy. In Zambia, 15% of married women age 15—49 years had experienced sexual violence from their husband or partner. The prevalence of unintended pregnancies among women age 15—49 years
Mwewa E. Kasonde, Bwalya Bupe Bwalya, Elizabeth T. Nyirenda, Chabila Christopher Mapoma, Milika Sikaluzwe, Kafiswe Chimpinde, Gloria I. Songolo   +6 more
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Unintended pregnancy in opioid-abusing women [PDF]

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2011
The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of unintended pregnancy and its three subtypes (mistimed, unwanted, and ambivalent) among opioid-abusing women. In the general population, 31%-47% of pregnancies are unintended; data on unintended pregnancy in opioid- and other drug-abusing women are lacking.
Sarah H, Heil, Hendree E, Jones, Amelia, Arria, Karol, Kaltenbach, Mara, Coyle, Gabriele, Fischer, Susan, Stine, Peter, Selby, Peter R, Martin   +8 more
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Factors associated with unintended pregnancies in India among married women over the past one and half decade (2005–2021): a multivariable decomposition analysis

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Along with other low- and middle-income countries unintended pregnancies are a matter of grave concern for India as well as world. Preventing unintended pregnancy can significantly reduce fertility as well as population health.
Sanjiv Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar Singh
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How Mistimed and Unwanted Pregnancies Affect Timing of Antenatal Care Initiation in three Districts in Tanzania [PDF]

, 2013
Early antenatal care (ANC) initiation is a doorway to early detection and management of potential complications associated with pregnancy. Although the literature reports various factors associated with ANC initiation such as parity and age, pregnancy ...
Hingora, Ahmed, Senga Pemba, Exavery, Amon, Godfrey Mbaruku, Kanté, Almamy Malick, Exavery Amon, Pemba Senga, Amon Exavery, Mbaruku Godfrey, Phillips, James F., Mbaruku, Godfrey, Phillips James F, Phillips, James F, James F Phillips, Pemba, Senga, Kanté Almamy Malick, Hingora Ahmed, Almamy Malick Kanté, Ahmed Hingora   +18 more
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Prevalence of unintended pregnancy and pertinent factors in women with positive pregnancy test [PDF]

حیات, 2003
Unintended pregnancy is a world wide problem that affects women, their families, and society. From a total of 175 million pregnancies per year 75 million of them are unintended.
Rezaipour, A. Taghizadeh, Z. Faghihzadeh, S. Bazzazian, Sh.   +4 more
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Unwanted Pregnancy and Associated Factors among Pregnant Married Women in Hosanna Town, Southern Ethiopia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Of an estimated 210 million pregnancies that occur in the world each year, 38% are unplanned, out of which 22% end in abortion. In Ethiopia, the estimates of unintended pregnancy indicate that it is one of the major reproductive health problems with all ...
Belayneh Hamdela, Abebe G/mariam, Tizta Tilahun   +2 more
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Unintended pregnancy among rural women in Bangladesh

, 2012
Unintended pregnancies are associated with unsafe abortion and greater risk of maternal morbidity and maternal deaths. In Bangladesh, approximately one-third of pregnancies are unintended.
Rob, Ubaidur, Noor, Forhana Rahman, Rahman, Md. Moshiur, Bellows, Benjamin   +3 more
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The prevalence of unintended pregnancy and its influence on pregnancy experience in Tabriz, Iran, 2023: a cross-sectional study

Reproductive Health
Background There is a lack of quantitative studies that specifically measure the association between the experience of pregnancy and unintended pregnancy.
Mahsa Maghalian, Roghayeh Nikanfar, Mahsan Nabighadim, Mojgan Mirghafourvand   +3 more
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Estimating the incidence of unintended births and pregnancies at the sub-state level to inform program design.

PLoS ONE, 2020
ObjectivesUnintended (mistimed or unwanted) pregnancies occur frequently in the United States and have negative effects. When designing prevention programs and intervention strategies for the provision of comprehensive birth control methods, it is ...
Keith Kranker, Sarah Bardin, Dara Lee Luca, So O'Neil   +3 more
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Women’s experience of unintended pregnancy and changes in contraceptive methods: evidence from a nationally representative survey

Reproductive Health, 2022
Plain Language summary Unintended pregnancy is considered a public health challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Around 89% of the global occurrences of unintended pregnancies occur in LMICs.
Md Nuruzzaman Khan, M. Mofizul Islam
doaj   +1 more source