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Associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Adolescent pregnancy is a serious reproductive health problem in Tanzania. However, the risk factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy in Tanzanian adolescents remain unexplored. METHODS: We collected baseline characteristics and informa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10012580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36918903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-023-01583-2 |
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author | Hirose, Naoki Sanmei, Chen Okamoto, Mariko Madeni, Frida E. Madeni, Nicolaus Teshima, Ayaka Ando, Yasunobu Takahama, Koji Yoshikawa, Mayu Kunimoto, Yu Shimpuku, Yoko |
author_facet | Hirose, Naoki Sanmei, Chen Okamoto, Mariko Madeni, Frida E. Madeni, Nicolaus Teshima, Ayaka Ando, Yasunobu Takahama, Koji Yoshikawa, Mayu Kunimoto, Yu Shimpuku, Yoko |
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description | BACKGROUND: Adolescent pregnancy is a serious reproductive health problem in Tanzania. However, the risk factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy in Tanzanian adolescents remain unexplored. METHODS: We collected baseline characteristics and information on attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health from 4161 Tanzanian adolescents in all 54 primary and secondary schools in the Korogwe district. We applied mixed effect multiple regression analyses stratified by sex to find the factors related to reproductive health attitudes and behaviors toward pregnancy. RESULTS: In female students, regarding the attitudes of reproductive health, higher age, hope for marriage in the future, a talk with a parent about sex or pregnancy, and a higher hope score were significantly associated with a lower score. For the behaviors of reproductive health, higher age, a talk with a parent about sex or pregnancy, time to talk with a parent about daily life, and a higher hope score were significantly associated with a lower score. In male students, regarding the attitudes of reproductive health, a higher hope score was significantly associated with a lower score. For the behaviors of reproductive health, higher age, time to talk with a parent about daily life, and a higher hope score was significantly associated with a lower score. CONCLUSIONS: The heterogeneous factor-outcomes association between female and male students suggested that sex-specialized interventions may be required to change their risky attitudes or behaviors of reproductive health. Although we cannot conclude as points of intervention, our study suggested that it may be practical to improve parent-adolescents communication about sex or reproductive health and change adolescents’ views of pregnancy or marriage for gaining financial or social status. |
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spelling | pubmed-100125802023-03-15 Associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study Hirose, Naoki Sanmei, Chen Okamoto, Mariko Madeni, Frida E. Madeni, Nicolaus Teshima, Ayaka Ando, Yasunobu Takahama, Koji Yoshikawa, Mayu Kunimoto, Yu Shimpuku, Yoko Reprod Health Research BACKGROUND: Adolescent pregnancy is a serious reproductive health problem in Tanzania. However, the risk factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy in Tanzanian adolescents remain unexplored. METHODS: We collected baseline characteristics and information on attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health from 4161 Tanzanian adolescents in all 54 primary and secondary schools in the Korogwe district. We applied mixed effect multiple regression analyses stratified by sex to find the factors related to reproductive health attitudes and behaviors toward pregnancy. RESULTS: In female students, regarding the attitudes of reproductive health, higher age, hope for marriage in the future, a talk with a parent about sex or pregnancy, and a higher hope score were significantly associated with a lower score. For the behaviors of reproductive health, higher age, a talk with a parent about sex or pregnancy, time to talk with a parent about daily life, and a higher hope score were significantly associated with a lower score. In male students, regarding the attitudes of reproductive health, a higher hope score was significantly associated with a lower score. For the behaviors of reproductive health, higher age, time to talk with a parent about daily life, and a higher hope score was significantly associated with a lower score. CONCLUSIONS: The heterogeneous factor-outcomes association between female and male students suggested that sex-specialized interventions may be required to change their risky attitudes or behaviors of reproductive health. Although we cannot conclude as points of intervention, our study suggested that it may be practical to improve parent-adolescents communication about sex or reproductive health and change adolescents’ views of pregnancy or marriage for gaining financial or social status. BioMed Central 2023-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10012580/ /pubmed/36918903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-023-01583-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Hirose, Naoki Sanmei, Chen Okamoto, Mariko Madeni, Frida E. Madeni, Nicolaus Teshima, Ayaka Ando, Yasunobu Takahama, Koji Yoshikawa, Mayu Kunimoto, Yu Shimpuku, Yoko Associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study |
title | Associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | associated factors for multidimensional attitudes and behaviors of reproductive health toward pregnancy among early and late adolescents in tanzania: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10012580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36918903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-023-01583-2 |
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