Prevalence and associated factors of unintended pregnancy among pregnant woman in Gondar town, North west Ethiopia, 2014

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess prevalence and associated factors of unintended pregnancy among pregnant women in Gondar town, North western Ethiopia, 2014. A community based cross-sectional study was conducted among pregnant women to select 325 participants for face to face interview by using simple random sampling technique from April 1-May 30, 2014. Bivariate and multivariate data analysis was performed using SPSS for Windows version 20 and level of significance of association was determined at P value < 0.05. Result: This study identified that 20.6% of pregnant women were unintended of which 6.8 were mistimed and 13.8 were unwanted. Unintended pregnancy was associated with family size (>= 4) (AOR = 2.92; 95% CI 1.605, 5.31), marital status (single) (AOR = 12.59; 95% CI 5.18, 30.6) and age at first pregnancy < 18 years AOR (95% CI) 3.02 (1.522, 6.245). Therefore it is important to adequately counsel women concerning positive mind-sets about its prevention mechanism and its consequences of unintended pregnancies.