Open AccessUnintended pregnancy in Egypt: evidence from the national study on women giving birth in 1999
Author(s) -
A A Shaheen,
M Diaaeldin,
Monique Chaaya,
Zana El Roueiheb
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/2007.13.6.1392
Subject(s) - unintended pregnancy , pregnancy , medicine , fertility , odds , obstetrics , family planning , demography , odds ratio , population , environmental health , logistic regression , research methodology , pathology , sociology , biology , genetics
The current study aimed to estimate the prevalence and correlates of unintended pregnancy among ever-married women. The study sample was 2349 ever-married women aged 15-49 years who gave birth in 1999. Unintended pregnancy was defined as unwanted and mistimed pregnancies. Of these, 431 (18.5%) women reported unintended pregnancy: 137 were mistimed (5.9%) and 294 were unwanted (12.6%). Women of older age, living in frontier governorates, with poor knowledge of the ovulatory cycle, having a more than ideal family size, using contraceptive methods and having 4 or more children were at increased odds of reporting unintended pregnancies. Fewer antenatal care visits and low child weight at birth were significantly associated with unintended pregnancy.