Social Media Influence on Termination of Slum Teenage Pregnancy - Bill Okaka, Philip;Moronge, Makori
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Globally, Sub-Sahara Africa leads with 143 per 1,000 girls aged 15-19 years giving birth annually. In Kenya, 17.7% of 19-year-olds have begun childbearing; with 27% of adolescents in Nyanza by 2010. This study involved 71 teenagers aged between 13 and 19 on social media, established; incidences of pregnant teenagers; information contribution on pregnancy termination; knowledge and attitude on pregnancy termination; and pregnancy termination practices. Worked with community based psychosocial support groups as link points (purposively sampled), snowball was latter applied to identify other…mehr

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Globally, Sub-Sahara Africa leads with 143 per 1,000 girls aged 15-19 years giving birth annually. In Kenya, 17.7% of 19-year-olds have begun childbearing; with 27% of adolescents in Nyanza by 2010. This study involved 71 teenagers aged between 13 and 19 on social media, established; incidences of pregnant teenagers; information contribution on pregnancy termination; knowledge and attitude on pregnancy termination; and pregnancy termination practices. Worked with community based psychosocial support groups as link points (purposively sampled), snowball was latter applied to identify other respondents. The unit of analysis was teenage girl who lived in the slums, had terminated pregnancy, and were active on social media for at least 4 years. Social Learning Theory guided this research.
Autorenporträt
Philip Bill Okaka (PhD candidate of Development Studies at Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology), is a holder of BA (Communication and Media Technology ¿ Maseno University, Kenya), Certificate (Monitoring and Evaluation ¿ AMREF, Kenya), and MA (Development Studies ¿ Mount Kenya University, Kenya). Has 10 years of development work.