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Socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in Nigeria

OBJECTIVE: Delayed childbearing is an emerging public health issue in developing countries compared with more developed countries, where it is already a major clinical and public health concern. Previous studies have mostly focused on either the health risks associated with delayed childbearing or t...

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Autores principales: Solanke, Bola Lukman, Salau, Omowunmi Romoke, Popoola, Oluwafeyikemi Eunice, Adebiyi, Munirat Olayinka, Ajao, Olayinka Oluseyi
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31262350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4414-x
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author Solanke, Bola Lukman
Salau, Omowunmi Romoke
Popoola, Oluwafeyikemi Eunice
Adebiyi, Munirat Olayinka
Ajao, Olayinka Oluseyi
author_facet Solanke, Bola Lukman
Salau, Omowunmi Romoke
Popoola, Oluwafeyikemi Eunice
Adebiyi, Munirat Olayinka
Ajao, Olayinka Oluseyi
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description OBJECTIVE: Delayed childbearing is an emerging public health issue in developing countries compared with more developed countries, where it is already a major clinical and public health concern. Previous studies have mostly focused on either the health risks associated with delayed childbearing or the reasons for it with little done around the socio-demographic factors associated with it in developing countries. The objective of the study was to examine associated socio-demographic factors of delayed childbearing in Nigeria. RESULTS: The study used secondary data pooled from 2003 to 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys. The outcome variable was delayed childbearing. The explanatory variables are selected individual socio-demographic characteristics and community characteristics. A weighted sample size of 20,550 women was analysed. Results showed a prevalence of 8.0% delayed childbearing in Nigeria. Socio-demographic factors such as higher maternal education, age at first marriage of 25 years or older, modern contraceptive use, and remarriage status were significantly associated with delayed childbearing. Significant associations were also observed with high community literacy level and high proportion of women who ever used modern contraceptive in the community.
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spelling pubmed-66044342019-07-12 Socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in Nigeria Solanke, Bola Lukman Salau, Omowunmi Romoke Popoola, Oluwafeyikemi Eunice Adebiyi, Munirat Olayinka Ajao, Olayinka Oluseyi BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Delayed childbearing is an emerging public health issue in developing countries compared with more developed countries, where it is already a major clinical and public health concern. Previous studies have mostly focused on either the health risks associated with delayed childbearing or the reasons for it with little done around the socio-demographic factors associated with it in developing countries. The objective of the study was to examine associated socio-demographic factors of delayed childbearing in Nigeria. RESULTS: The study used secondary data pooled from 2003 to 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys. The outcome variable was delayed childbearing. The explanatory variables are selected individual socio-demographic characteristics and community characteristics. A weighted sample size of 20,550 women was analysed. Results showed a prevalence of 8.0% delayed childbearing in Nigeria. Socio-demographic factors such as higher maternal education, age at first marriage of 25 years or older, modern contraceptive use, and remarriage status were significantly associated with delayed childbearing. Significant associations were also observed with high community literacy level and high proportion of women who ever used modern contraceptive in the community. BioMed Central 2019-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6604434/ /pubmed/31262350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4414-x Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Solanke, Bola Lukman
Salau, Omowunmi Romoke
Popoola, Oluwafeyikemi Eunice
Adebiyi, Munirat Olayinka
Ajao, Olayinka Oluseyi
Socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in Nigeria
title Socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in Nigeria
title_full Socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in Nigeria
title_fullStr Socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in Nigeria
title_short Socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in Nigeria
title_sort socio-demographic factors associated with delayed childbearing in nigeria
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6604434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31262350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4414-x
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