From: Child marriage and associated outcomes in northern Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Ever-married women 20 to 24 years old | Ever-married women 20 to 29 years old | |||||
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N | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | |
Health outcomes | ||||||
Illness in last 2 weeks | 594 | 0.24 | 0.43 | 1349 | 0.30 | 0.46 |
No valid NHIS card | 594 | 0.46 | 0.50 | 1348 | 0.44 | 0.50 |
Fair/poor self-rated health | 516 | 0.18 | 0.38 | 1174 | 0.21 | 0.41 |
Believes health is not better than a year ago | 516 | 0.52 | 0.50 | 1174 | 0.54 | 0.50 |
Has difficulty with ADL | 516 | 0.48 | 0.50 | 1174 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
Fertility, contraception, and child mortality | ||||||
Age of first birth | 493 | 18.93 | 2.25 | 1150 | 19.32 | 2.71 |
Adolescence childbearing | 594 | 0.47 | 0.50 | 1349 | 0.45 | 0.50 |
First born child died | 495 | 0.08 | 0.27 | 1152 | 0.10 | 0.30 |
Use any contraceptive | 447 | 0.12 | 0.32 | 1025 | 0.15 | 0.36 |
Use modern contraceptive | 447 | 0.12 | 0.32 | 1025 | 0.14 | 0.34 |
Unmet need for contraception | 447 | 0.03 | 0.17 | 1025 | 0.03 | 0.17 |
Empowerment, agency, support & stress | ||||||
Currently saving money | 516 | 0.04 | 0.20 | 1174 | 0.06 | 0.24 |
Believes life determined by own actions | 516 | 0.21 | 0.41 | 1174 | 0.22 | 0.41 |
Believes have power to make decisions - life course | 516 | 0.21 | 0.40 | 1174 | 0.22 | 0.41 |
Believes have power to make decisions - children’s wellbeing | 516 | 0.14 | 0.35 | 1174 | 0.16 | 0.37 |
Believes have power to make decisions - household wellbeing | 516 | 0.09 | 0.29 | 1174 | 0.11 | 0.32 |
Believes capable protecting own interests within family | 516 | 0.10 | 0.30 | 1174 | 0.12 | 0.32 |
Believes capable protecting own interests outside family | 516 | 0.11 | 0.31 | 1174 | 0.15 | 0.36 |
MOS-Social Support score | 516 | 53.34 | 23.25 | 1174 | 51.99 | 22.74 |
Cohen perceived stress scale | 516 | 21.00 | 4.70 | 1174 | 21.64 | 4.94 |