Conclusions and Recommendations
Our study found that majority of the women aged 15-29
years had experienced teenage marital pregnancy, indicating
a serious public health concern. Current study
also identified several factors, contributed to the higher
teenage pregnancy, such as women’s age, desire number
of children and birth place. Based on the findings of the
present study, we recommend that intervention should
be given to the reduction of desired number of children.
As this study indicated that still half of the women
desired for more than two children. Higher desired
number of children leads women to have children
immediately after marriage; more importantly, as desired
number children is more of cultural, there should a long
term strategy to tackle this issue culturally. Community
based campaign, since mass media exposure did not
appear significant in multi-dimensional social settings,
for limiting desired number of children within two may
be considered. In this regard, disadvantages of higher
desired number of children may be the content. However,
prior to developing content of the campaign, formative
research would be necessary to provide culture
specific information so that they are culturally accepted
to women. In addition, special emphasis should be given
among women born in rural areas where relatively
awareness is very low along with absence of other civic
opportunities that come in urban areas.