The role of contraceptive awareness among adolescents in mitigating teenage pregnancies in Finland.
Osei Owusu, Akua Abrafi (2018)
Osei Owusu, Akua Abrafi
Yrkeshögskolan Arcada
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018102916336
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018102916336
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There have been reports of increased use of emergency pills in Finland despite caution and fears concerning their side effect. This necessitated a need for a study that investigated whether cognitive awareness affected the use of contraceptives among the adolescents in Finland. The aim of this research was to identify how contraceptive awareness affects pregnancies among adolescents. The study used secondary research to identify articles that were relevant to the research objectives. The study identified the contraceptive awareness attitude towards emergency pills in reducing adolescents’ pregnancies. The study noted that the effect of contraceptive awareness attitudes had some little effect on the use of contraceptives as well as pregnancy. The study also identified that subjective norms especially parent and peers had much effect on their use of contraceptives. The research indicated that adolescents whose parents approved their sexual relationships and approved their sexual partners were likely to use contraceptives compared to teenagers whose parent were not aware of their relationships and they did not approve of such relationships. The limitations of the studies focused on women who were older than that some of the studies that had important information concerning use of contraceptives among teenagers in the Finland were older than 2007 which meant that they had to be excluded from the study. Future research should overcome the challenges identified in the prior section by including more Scandinavian countries in the review research in order to include as many articles as possible.