Prevalence Of Unsafe Abortion And Associated Factors Among Women Attending The Maternal And Child Health Units Of Public Health Centers In Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Background; unsafe abortion in Ethiopia has long been recognized as among a leading causernof deaths and injuries to women. However there is limited scientific information available onrnthe women who seek unsafe abortion, factors which may be a cause for unsafe abortion.rnObjectives; The objective was to assess the prevalence of unsafe abortion and associated riskrnfactors among women attending maternal and child health units in public health centers inrnAddis Ababa.rnMethods; Institution based cross sectional study design was employed among 422 womenrnattending maternal and child health unit of selected health centres between September tornOctober 2016 in Addis Ababa A structured interviewer administered questionnaire was used.rnThe collected data was entered using Epi data 3.0 and analyzed using IBM StatisticalrnPackage for Social Sciences version 20.0. Descriptive statistics was used to describe thernstudy variables. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess the relative effect ofrndeterminants. A P

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