Prevalence and Determinants of Early Adolescent Childbearing in High Maternal Mortality Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis of DHS Data

This study showed that the prevalence of early adolescent childbearing in extremely high and very high maternal mortality SSA countries remains high. Level of education, age, religion, residence, household wealth, household size, media exposure, own mobile, internet use, fertility preference, contraception use and intention, working status, visited by community health worker, knowledge of contraceptive, visited health facility for reproductive health service and countries were associated with early adolescent childbearing. Hence, these findings underscore the need for policies that enhance education access, reproductive health services, and economic opportunities to mitigate early adolescent childbearing.