Open AccessUnintended pregnancy among antenatal women in a tertiary hospital in North Central Nigeria
Author(s) -
Teddy E. Agida,
Godwin O Akaba,
Bissalah Ahmed Ekele,
Francis Adebayo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
nigerian medical journal/nigerian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-774X
pISSN - 0300-1652
DOI - 10.4103/0300-1652.193859
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , unintended pregnancy , family planning , obstetrics , chi square test , family medicine , cross sectional study , descriptive statistics , population , gynecology , environmental health , research methodology , statistics , genetics , mathematics , pathology , biology
Unintended pregnancy is a pregnancy that is either unwanted or mistimed. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of unintended pregnancy as well as to document the determinant factors among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Abuja, Nigeria.