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Prevalence and Determinants of Abortion among Women Attending Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Jinja District
Author: Olive, Sabina Kirabo
Publisher: IAA Journal of Scientific Research
Published: 2023
Section: Faculty of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry
Abstract
Abortion is one of the major factors contributing to the high maternal mortality in the lowand
middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of
abortion its determinants among the women of the reproductive age (15-49 years) attending
JRRH, Jinja district. A simple random sampling method was used to select 104 women who
had at least one birth in the last five years. Abortion was measured on the basis of the reason
provided by the women for having their last abortion. Likewise, unsafe abortion was
measured on the basis of provider providing the service to women. Prevalence of abortion
and the association of abortion and unsafe abortion with various factors were assessed using
Odds Ratio (OR) with their 95% Confidence Interval (CI) using binary logistic regression
models. The prevalence of abortion was found to be 4.8 percent among women with 20
percent of them conducted using unsafe methods. Women in the age group 30-34 were more
likely (OR=4.59, 95% CI 1.8311.50) to perform abortions compared to women of the youngest
age group (15-19 years). Women having secondary level of education were more likely
(OR=2.58, 95% CI 1.62-4.09) to conduct abortions compared to illiterate women. Finally,
richest women in urban settings were more likely (OR=2.97, 95% CI 1.71-5.17) to have
abortions compared to women from rural settings. Also from the logistic regression models,
women in the age group 30-34 were less likely (OR=0.08, 95% CI 0.01-0.89) to have unsafe
abortions compared to the youngest age group (15-19 years) and the women from urban
settings had lesser (OR=0.25, 95% CI 0.07-0.89) likelihood of conducting unsafe abortion
compared to those from rural settings. From our study it was identified that one in every
twenty women of reproductive age attending JRRH abort their child and nearly one in five of
those are unsafe. Further studies should consider the relationship between the use of
contraception and abortion to identify if women were aborting due to lack of access to
contraception or due to other reasons