University of South Asia: Faculty of Life &health Sciences

SUBMITTED BY
Fatima Ijaz M-16418

Doctor of Physical Therapy
Session 2015-2020
Submitted to
Madam Farzana Khan
Semester #8
Faculty of Life &Health Sciences

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ASIA
TOPIC: TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND ITS EFFECTS ON A GIRLS

ABSTRACT
Pregnancy is the period where children between the ages of 12 to 17 become pregnant. Every year
approximately one million teenage girls become pregnant in Ghana and of these cases 13 percent are
from the Kabakaba educational circuit. Out of these, about 2 percent are intended due to early marriage.
Teenage pregnancy in this area is quite higher than any part of the country. As a result teenage
pregnancy has become an important public policy issue as it has been defined as a social problem rather
than an individual concern. Teen mother have lower chance of completing high school, especially if they
have their first child before 18 years (Klepinger and Plotnick) their inability to complete basic education
have a trickling down effect on their social life, thus they have few basic skill such as computer literacy,
health implications of the baby and the mother and above all dropping out from school..
INTRODUCTION
Kabakaba educational circuit, like many other educational circuits in Ghana is experiencing a study
increase in teen’s pregnancies and teens engaging in premarital sex. According to the political science
department vital statistics report on girl child education in the central region in 2002, the population of
female s between the ages of 14 to 17 in kabakaba was approximately 7, 346, of that number, an
estimated 1,676 gave birth to children out of wedlock. Furthermore the pregnancy resource centre in
the central regional hospital report that in 2003, an estimated 1,150 pregnancy test were administered
by their organization. Teenagers received 570 of these test. An increase of 170 additional tests was given
to teen agers in2003 than the previous year.
STATEMENT OF RESEARCH
 The purpose of this study is to
 determine how many of the teenage pregnancy girls are able to complete school,
 how many of them become drop out, the social effect of their actions andinactions,
 the factors that account for the increase in teen pregnancy cases
 And the way forward to stop this decadence and also to help those whose are engulfed in it
already.
METHODOLOGY
A quasi-experimental research methodology shall be used on the sample population of high schools in
the area, .the primary and secondary research method shall be used in order to gain a complete insight
into the issue. Primary research shall involve questionnaire and semi-formal interview with teens in high
school. The secondary research shall utilize books, magazine and the internet to gain further knowledge
and information about the subject base.
STATEMENT OF LIMITATIONS
As the study would conclude using limited sample from the entire population, therefore we assume that
the provided sample would provide us with an unbiased overview of the entire population and therefore
our analysis and study would be applicable on the entire district. The answers that would be obtained
from the entire audience would be assumed to be 100%
DATA ANALYSIS
There are one million teenage mothers in Ghana, as statistics shows 13% of them are from Kabakaba
educational circuit. Of the 13%, 2% are intended of the 11%that are not intended 6% are of the ages
between 11 to 13 years 5% are between 14 to 17 years.
From the above figure of 13% from the kabakaba educational circuitonly a pottery 1.5% are able to enter
senior high school, whiles most of them get pregnant before entering junior high school, it is empirical to
note that only 2% areable to enroll into junior high school. From the figure of 1.5% that enters senior hig
h school only 0.5% are able to complete. This can be adduce from the fact thatmost of those who are no
t able to complete either get pregnant or got married toand got pregnant in their teens and could not ca
rry on with their education. Theabove data analyzed shows that the progress in education is hampered b
y teenage pregnancy and as such a concerted effort must be made by policy makers and thecitizenry to c
urb such decadence.
CONCLUSION
In order to create a true solution to the problem of teenage pregnancy, many different approaches will
need to be combined and created. Teen pregnancy had definitely become a social problem and needs to
be addressed on many different levels sex education, awareness and honesty are some of the important
topics that needs to be inculcated in the educational system. There are many ways society and policy can
be supported so the cycle of poverty is not perpetually repeated and everyone can have a fair chance of
to reach their potential in society.
REFERENCE
 Centre for disease control (2002)
 Political science department university of Ghana vital statistics report (2003)
 Poverty and teenage pregnancy www.personal.psu.com.
 Reducing adolescent pregnancy through school and community Vincent MI Claire (1999).

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Fatima Ijaz M-16418

Madam Farzana Khan

Faculty of Life &Health Sciences

TOPIC: TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND ITS EFFECTS ON A GIRLS

and information about the subject base.

 Political science department university of Ghana vital statistics report (2003)

 Poverty and teenage pregnancy www.personal.psu.com.

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