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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Glob. Womens Health
Sec. Contraception and Family Planning
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2024.1437375
This article is part of the Research Topic Current Advances in Contraceptive Use, Technology, and Promotion View all 6 articles

Less than one in five teenage women in Ethiopia know about emergency contraception

Provisionally accepted
Tesfahun Zemene Tafere Tesfahun Zemene Tafere 1*Getachew Teshale Getachew Teshale 1Melak Jejaw Melak Jejaw 1Kaleb A. Demissie Kaleb A. Demissie 1Lemlem Daniel Baffa Lemlem Daniel Baffa 2Demiss M. Geberu Demiss M. Geberu 1Misganaw Guadie Tiruneh Misganaw Guadie Tiruneh 1Asebe Hagos Asebe Hagos 1
  • 1 Department of Health Systems and Policy, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
  • 2 Department of Human Nutrition, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

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    Background: Teenage women's fertility health faces significant challenges from unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions. Using an emergency contraception within a defined time period could prevent unintended pregnancy and its damaging consequences, like unintended childbirth and unsafe abortion. Despite it being an appropriate contraception, the knowledge of teenage women about emergency contraception is lower among women in developing countries.Therefore, this study aimed to examine the magnitude of emergency contraception knowledge and its associated factors among teenage women in Ethiopia.Methods: Data for this study was obtained from the recent Demographic and Health Surveys. A total weighted sample of 3381 teenage reproductive women were included. The significant associated factors with emergency contraception knowledge among teenage reproductive women were determined by fitting a multilevel mixed-effect binary logistic regression model. Finally, Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) with a 95% confidence interval and a P value of less than 0.05 was used to declare statistical significance.In Ethiopia, the magnitude of teenage women who knew about emergency

    Keywords: Teenage women, EC, factors, Multilevel Analysis, Ethiopia

    Received: 23 May 2024; Accepted: 30 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Tafere, Teshale, Jejaw, Demissie, Baffa, Geberu, Tiruneh and Hagos. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Tesfahun Zemene Tafere, Department of Health Systems and Policy, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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