Socio-Economical and Sociological Factors as Predictors of Illegal Abortion among Adolescent in Akoko West Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria

摘要

This study examines the socio-economic and sociological factors as predictors of illegal abortion among adolescents in ten secondary schools namely Ajegunle high school, Agbogbo High school, Akoko Grammar school, Ikare Grammar School, Comprehensive High School, Okede Grammar School, Mount Carmel Girls Grammar School and Victory College. The participants for this study consisted of 500 respondents selected from the population of adolescent in Akoko West local Government sampled using survey research design. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the ten secondary schools while the purposive sampling technique was used to select 500 adolescent students. A self developed questionnaire with reliability co-efficient of 0.84 was used to collect the data using cronbach alpha. The descriptive statistics of frequency, percentages, were used to analyze the demographic information while non-parametric statistics of chi-square (X~(2)) was used to test the hypotheses formulated at 0.05 alpha level of significant. The result showed that poverty, drop out of school, level of education and inadequate of medical personnel, facilities and equipment were predictors to illegal abortion among adolescent in Akoko West Local Government of Ondo State. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Government should eradicate poverty in our society by providing job opportunities for the masses, more hospitals, health centers’ should be built with modern medical equipment and medical personnel, and there should be public awareness about the dangers of illegal abortion.