Volume 59, Issue 328, April 2023

Problems of teenage pregnancy among Magar and Dalit community

Lalmani Acharya^1♦

Associate Professor, Tribhuvan University, Mahendra Multiple Campus, Nepalgunj, Nepal

^♦Corresponding author
Associate Professor, Tribhuvan University, Mahendra Multiple Campus, Nepalgunj, Nepal

ABSTRACT

This study is conducted on teenage pregnancy and its effects on their health status. The major focus of this research is to determine the causes of teenage pregnancy among the Magar and Dalit communities in Tribeni Rural Municipality Ward No. 7, Rukum, as well as its effects and socioeconomic aspects. This study is based on descriptive research design. This study was based on primary and secondary source of data. The population of this study was the total number of married women of Tribeni Rural Municipality. Only 50 Magar and 50 Dalit married pregnant women were selected by using the purposive sampling method. In this study information had been collected with the help of interview schedule. After collection of data the quantitative information presented in the form of table percentage and figure. The major findings of this study were the main factors of teenage pregnancy were said that Magar respondents 42 percent to help household work and 38 percent were said Dalit respondents. Similarly, Magar women are 28 percent traditional concept 18 percent lack of education, 12 percent poverty and in Dalit 26 percent traditional concept, 2 percent lack of education 14 percent poverty cause of teenage pregnancy. 20 percent Magar respondents they had got a problem of early birth, 30 percent still both, 8 percent death after birth and among Dalit respondents they had got a problem of 16 percent early still birth 24 death after birth.

Keywords: Teen-age pregnancy, Magar, Dalit, reproductive health, adolescent

Discovery, 2023, 59, e50d1050

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Published: April 2023