Religion and Contraceptive use among Sexually Active Adolescent Girls in Kenya | Chapter 09 | New Horizons in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 10

 The goal of this study was to see if religious affiliation was linked to the use of contemporary contraception among Kenyan sexually active adolescent females.

According to the Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) from 2014, half of Kenyan women aged 20 to 49 had their first sexual encounter before the age of 18. Early sexual activity has been associated to unfavourable health outcomes such as unwanted adolescent pregnancies, STIs, and cervical cancer. One in every five adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 is either pregnant or has given birth to a living kid. A cross-sectional study technique was used to undertake secondary analysis of the Kenyan DHS 2014 female dataset. The research included 732 sexually active teenage girls aged 15 to 19. The key outcome measure was the current use of a modern contraceptive method. Descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed by the researchers. The sample probabilities were modified for all computations 30.2 percent of sexually active adolescent females said they were currently using contemporary contraception. 30.7 percent of Christians and 21.1 percent of Muslims used modern contraception at the time of the survey.

In Kenya, the prevalence of contemporary contraception (CPR) among sexually active teenage girls aged 15 to 19 was low. Adolescents of many religions used contemporary contraceptives in the same way.

Author(S) Details

Ondieki Diana Kerubo
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Penfold Suzanne
Department of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.

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