Nyarko Samuel H
Department of Population and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, V/R, Ghana.
BMC Womens Health. 2015 Aug 19;15:60. doi: 10.1186/s12905-015-0221-2.
Adolescence is a critical stage in the life course and evidence suggests that even though contraceptive use has been steadily increasing among women in Ghana over the past years, contraceptive prevalence and determinants among female adolescents is quite lacking. This paper examines the prevalence and correlates of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana.
The paper used data from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health survey. Bivariate analysis was carried out to determine the contraceptive prevalence among female adolescents while logistic regression analysis was applied to examine the correlates of female adolescent contraceptive use.
The study founded that female adolescent contraceptive use was significantly determined by age of adolescent, education, work status, knowledge of ovulatory cycle, visit of health facility and marital status.
This has implications for adolescent sexual and reproductive health programmes in Ghana. It is therefore essential to intensify girl child education and strengthen the provision of family planning information and services for female adolescents in the country.
青春期是人生历程中的一个关键阶段，有证据表明，尽管过去几年加纳女性的避孕药具使用量一直在稳步增加，但女性青少年中的避孕药具普及率及相关决定因素却相当缺乏。本文探讨了加纳女性青少年避孕药具的使用情况及其相关因素。
本文使用了2008年加纳人口与健康调查的数据。进行了双变量分析以确定女性青少年中的避孕药具普及率，同时应用逻辑回归分析来研究女性青少年避孕药具使用的相关因素。
研究发现，女性青少年的避孕药具使用情况显著取决于青少年的年龄、教育程度、工作状况、排卵周期知识、医疗机构就诊情况和婚姻状况。
这对加纳的青少年性健康和生殖健康项目具有启示意义。因此，加强女童教育并强化该国为女性青少年提供的计划生育信息和服务至关重要。
