Results
Eight hundred and nineteen study participants provided data at baseline and at least one follow-up time point. These participants reported a total of 174 pregnancies over approximately 2 years of follow-up. Of these preg- nancies, 10 (3.6%) were wanted at that time, and these respondents were dropped from subsequent analyses. Of the remaining 164 pregnancies, 53 (32.3%) were unplanned and 85 (67.7%) were unwanted. Pregnancy intention data were missing for 22 young women, and they were also dropped from analyses, for a total of 756 women reporting
136 pregnancies.
Table 1 shows the sociodemographic and select sexual and reproductive behaviors for three groups: women who reported no incident pregnancy, and those who had at least one unplanned or unwanted pregnancy at T1 or T2. Those women who reported an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy came from households with lower socioeco- nomic status. Young women who had incident unplanned or unwanted pregnancies were less likely to have had a pregnancy prior to baseline. They were also less likely to report hormonal contraceptive use at baseline and