ADOLESCENCENTS PREGNANNCY IN BARANGGAY KIMADZIL, CARMEN,

COTABATO

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A Research Outlined

Presented to

Carmen National High school – Senior High school

Carmen, Cotabato

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A Requirements for

Practical Research I

RYAJEN B. SANTIAGO
EDJELYN ASTROLOGO
ALMA MELICO
RHOSMIN CABILO
ABDULSALAM TULANTINGAN

June 2022
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER Page

1 INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study 1

Statement of the Problem 2

Scope and Limitation of the Study 3

Purpose and Significance of the Study 4

 CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

The teenage pregnancy rate in the Philippines was 10% in 2008, down to 9% in 2017.

Live births by teenage mothers (aged 10-19) in 2016 totaled 203,085, which slightly decreased to

196,478 in 2017 and 183,000 in 2018. Still, the Philippines has one of the highest adolescent

birth rates among the ASEAN Member States. Recent World Bank data shows that the

Philippines has 47 births annually per 1,000 women aged 15-19, higher than the average

adolescent birth rates of 44 globally and 33.5 in the ASEAN region [cf. Lao PDR (76),

Cambodia (57), Indonesia (48) and Thailand (43)]. This entails that more than 500 Filipino

adolescent girls are getting pregnant and giving birth every day. UNFPA echoes the sense of

urgency demonstrated by NEDA and POPCOM, which recently described the still alarmingly

high teenage pregnancy rate in the country as a “national emergency”.

The Philippines’ population will reach 108.8 million in 2020, according to the

Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) estimate. More than 53 million are below 25 years of age,

including 10.3 million adolescent girls (10-19 years old). Countries with a “demographic

window of opportunity” and large shares of young people, such as the Philippines, have an

opportunity to accelerate development if strategic investments are made. This is a phenomenon

known as the “demographic dividend” which is discussed in Chapter 13 of the Philippines

Development Plan 2017-2022.

 This is exactly how countries like Japan achieved economic growth – by reaping a

demographic dividend by investing in health, education, and employability of young people.

Looking back in the 1970s, the Philippines, Thailand, and Republic of Korea (South Korea)

shared almost a similar population – South Korea 32 million, Thailand 37 million, and the

Philippines 36 million. 50 years later in 2020, South Korea’s population has increased by 59% to

51 million, Thailand by 189% to 70 million, and the Philippines by 304% to 109 million.

In the Nairobi Summit in November 2019 that marked the 25th anniversary of the

landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the Government of

the Philippines expressed a strong pledge to recommit the country to the 1994 ICPD

Programmed of Action that promotes sexual and reproductive health (SRH), reproductive rights,

gender equality, and empowerment of adolescents and youth.

One of the major public health issues across the whole world is teenage pregnancy

which is defined as pregnancy in girls aged 13–19 years. According to WHO, seven countries

mainly constitute for half of all adolescent births, namely, Bangladesh, Brazil, the Democratic

Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, and the United States of America.

Teenage pregnancy is greatly associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes like

obstructed labor, pre-eclampsia, anemia, operative deliveries, puerperal endometritis, postpartum

hemorrhage, low birth weight, preterm delivery, and perinatal death. Studies conducted in North

India and Turkey outlined that babies of adolescent mothers were 1.65 and 4.94 times more

likely to be born prematurely and face intrauterine fetal death (IUFD), respectively.

Studies conducted in Taiwan, USA, and Korea showed that teenagers were 1.58, 1.36,

and 1.16 times more likely to have preterm delivery than the adults, respectively. A study in
Nepal showed that low birth weight in teenagers and adults was 24% vs. 9% (P=0.013). Another

study was conducted in Ankara in a referral hospital revealed that teenagers deliver 4.14 times

more likely prematurely than adults.

A study conducted in Cameron revealed that subjects with teenage pregnancy were 1.94

and 1.46 times more likely to deliver very low birth weight and low birth weight neonates than

adults. Studies showed that a significantly higher rate of cesarean delivery was found among

adult mothers compared with teenage mothers. In a study conducted in Sweden, teenagers were

30% less likely to develop postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) and 63% less probable to be

complicated by Antepartum hemorrhage (APH) secondary to placenta Previa. As a study in

Finland showed, teenagers are 1.2 and 3.2 times more likely to develop preeclampsia and

eclampsia than adults. Even though a lot has been said about teenage pregnancy and its

associated factors and some deals about the outcomes across the globe, as far as the

investigator’s knowledge, there are limited published researches on adverse obstetric and

perinatal outcomes of teenage pregnancy in Ethiopia. In addition, there are three studies on

teenage pregnancy and associated factors in Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to assess teenage

pregnancy and its adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes at Lemlem Karl hospital, Tigray,

Ethiopia, 2018.
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Statement of the Problem

1. What is your best planned after you found out that you are pregnant?

2. How can you handle it without experience? Did you think to abandoned it

or did you accept whole heartedly?

3. What can you advice to those teenager experiencing early pregnancy?

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Scope and limitation of the study

The study focuses on the situation that happening in this generations the adolescence

pregnancy because this situation is center of attraction that involve the teenager. The study

limited to only three (3) adolescence pregnancy in barangay Kimadzil, Carmen.

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Purpose and significance of the study

This research is mainly conducted to write your reason/purpose in conducting this study

the mainly conducted to allocate the teenager or student that involve in this situation for what

reason and for why adolescent experience this kind of situation and for what drove them to take

such a situation to become a young mother. The purpose of the study is to assess the awareness

of learner's about the prevention of teenager's pregnancy through a sexuality of education

programmed. The study intended to find out whether teenager is aware of the different

pregnancy prevention measures.

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References
Abebe, A.M., Fitie, G. W., Jember, D. A., Reda, M. M., & Wake, G. E., (2020). Student voice:
Teenage Pregnancy and Its Adverse Obstetric and Perinatal Outcomes at Lemlem Karl Hospital,
Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018. Retrieved from: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2020/3124847/
Student voice: Eliminating Teenage Pregnancy in the Philippines. (2020). Retrieved from
https://philippines.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA_Policy_Brief_Teenage_Pregnan
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