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• TITLE: Unintended Pregnancy Determinants among Antenatal Clinic Attendees: A University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital Experience

  AUTHORS: Ijeoma Chioma Oppah, Terhemen Kasso, Emmanuel Okwudili Oranu

  KEYWORDS: Unintended Pregnancy, Determinants, Prevalence, Antenatal Attendees

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, Vol.12 No.4, April 25, 2024

  ABSTRACT: An unintended pregnancy is a pregnancy that is either mistimed or unplanned. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of unintended pregnancy as well as to document the determinant factors among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It was a descriptive, cross-sectional study of 215 women attending the antenatal clinic of UPTH from July to August 2022. Information on socio-demographic characteristics, reproductive history, desirability of the current pregnancy at the time of conception, knowledge and use of contraceptive methods were collected using a pretested questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS version 26.0. Chi-square test was used for test of associations with the level of significance set at P