PMID- 26629813
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160620
LR  - 20240317
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 12
DP  - 2015
TI  - Level, Trend and Correlates of Mistimed and Unwanted Pregnancies among Currently 
      Pregnant Ever Married Women in India.
PG  - e0144400
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0144400 [doi]
LID - e0144400
AB  - Unintended pregnancy accounts for more than 40% of the total pregnancies 
      worldwide. An Unintended pregnancy can have serious implications on women and 
      their families. With more than one-fourth of the children in India born out of 
      unintended pregnancies such pregnancies are considered to be one of the major 
      public health concerns today. The present study is aimed at determining major 
      predictors of unintended pregnancy among currently pregnant ever-married women in 
      India. The present study has used National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data, 
      conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, 
      to show the trend, pattern and determinants of mistimed and unwanted pregnancies. 
      Bivariate and multinomial logistic regression model have been used with the help 
      of Stata 13 software. The results show that the likelihood of a mistimed 
      pregnancy is more prevalent among young women whereas the prevalence of unwanted 
      pregnancy is observed more among the women aged 35 years or more. The results 
      also show that the risk of experiencing mistimed pregnancy decreases if the woman 
      belongs to 'other' castes and has higher education. The likelihood of unwanted 
      pregnancy decreases among married women aged 18 years and above, those women 
      having higher education, some autonomy and access to any mode of mass 
      communication. Knowledge of these predictors of mistimed and unwanted pregnancy 
      will be helpful in identifying the most vulnerable group and prioritize the 
      intervention strategies of the reproductive health programmes for the population 
      in need.
FAU - Dutta, Mili
AU  - Dutta M
AD  - Department of Fertility Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, 
      Mumbai, India.
FAU - Shekhar, Chander
AU  - Shekhar C
AD  - Department of Fertility Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, 
      Mumbai, India.
FAU - Prashad, Lokender
AU  - Prashad L
AD  - School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20151202
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Family Conflict/*psychology
MH  - Family Planning Services/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - India
MH  - Logistic Models
MH  - Male
MH  - Marriage/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Pregnancy, Unplanned/*psychology
MH  - Pregnancy, Unwanted/*psychology
MH  - Pregnant Women/*psychology
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC4668093
COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2015/12/03 06:00
MHDA- 2016/06/21 06:00
PMCR- 2015/12/02
CRDT- 2015/12/03 06:00
PHST- 2015/07/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/11/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/12/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/12/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/06/21 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2015/12/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-15-20165 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0144400 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2015 Dec 2;10(12):e0144400. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144400. 
      eCollection 2015.