Awareness and Attitude Regarding Teenage Pregnancy among Adolescent Girls of Chandannath Municipality, Jumla

Abstract

Background: Teenage pregnancy is a major threat to adolescent health globally which remains a challenging issue requiring urgent resolution over the world. Objectives: To find out to awareness and attitude regarding teenage pregnancy among adolescent girls. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross- sectional design was carried out among 334 adolescent girls of school students of Chandannath Municipality, Jumla. Results: More than half of adolescent girls (68%) had inadequate, 26% had moderate and least 6% had adequate awareness regarding teenage pregnancy. However, majority (58.1%) of adolescent girls had favorable attitude, that they believed teenage pregnancy as wrong while only (34.4%) of them had neutral attitude and least (7.5%) of them had unfavorable attitude which support teenage pregnancy. There was no relation between awareness and attitude regarding teenage pregnancy and types of family, level of education of father and mother. Conclusion: In this study, half of respondents had inadequate awareness regarding teenage pregnancy even though majority of them had favorable attitude regarding teenage pregnancy. There was no significant difference between demographic variables with awareness and attitude regarding teenage pregnancy. The study had highlighted the need for awareness program regarding teenage pregnancy in school as well as in community.