IJCM_24A: Determinants of unintended pregnancy among women attending Antenatal clinic at AIIMS Patna – a cross-sectional study

Abstract

Background: Every day 67,385 babies are born in India, that’s around one- sixth of the world’s childbirths. Every minute one of these new-borns dies, with an annual birth rate of 25 million which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world’s annual childbirth. Objectives: 1. To find out the proportion of unintended pregnancy among women of reproductive age group attending ANC Clinic of AIIMS Patna USING LUMP SCALE. 2. To determine the Factors contributing to unintended pregnancy. Methodology: This was a hospital based cross-sectional study done for 6months (March 2022 to September 2022) conducted in Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology OPD, AIIMS Patna and included all the pregnant ladies who visited the ANC clinic. Consecutive sampling was done and a sample size of 237 was taken rounding off to 250 with 5% absolute precision, 95% confidence and 10% non-response rate. A predesigned, semi-structured questionnaire was used and the information collected was downloaded from Epicollect5/Google forms in an MS Excel sheet and analysis was done using the IBM SPSS version20. Results: Out of 255 participants who were more than 20 years of age 31% (79) participants had unplanned pregnancies compared to 50% (17) out of 34 participants whose age was less than 20. This association was statistically significant with a p-value of 0.027. Out of 289 participants attending the ANC clinic, 32.87% (95) participants had a history of abortion among which only 23.2% (22) participants had an unplanned pregnancy. This association was statistically significant with a p-value of 0.011. Conclusion: In our study we found the prevalence of unintended pregnancy to be 33.2% which is comparable with 33% prevalence of unintended pregnancy in African continent study.

Keywords

• unintended pregnancy
• prevalence
• cross-sectional study