Topic

DIFFEREN
CE IN THE
INCIDENC
E OF
COMMUNI
TY
RELATED
FACTORS
BETWEEN
PREGNANT
AND NON
PREGNANT

Findings

Conclusion

Recommendation

Pregnant
(highest frequency)
1. School provision of
Health education and
insight on prevention
of teenage pregnancy
is highly influential to
teenage pregnancy .

Schools cant prevent

teenage pregnancy but they
have an important role.The
results shows that some
teenagers are not
interested in health
education as well as lack of
health education and
insights when it comes to
their health teachings .Since
teenagers see teachers
including counselors as a
second family ,they are
considered as the most
reliable source of sex related
information thus,Sex
education curriculum should
be clearly define the
decision making process for
intimate relationship and the
choice to abstain from sex
without a sense of guilt.

The school should include a policy and

strategies for enhancing academic outcomes
such as :
1.fostering the sense of purpose and calling of
their own future with this it can strengthen the
teens purpose to be productive in the future and
delay early parenthood.
2.Provide HIV ,STD education programs and
pregnancy prevention programs .These would
help teens to avoid and to reduce teenagers
who engage in risky sexual behaviors.

Non pregnant
(highest frequency)
2. Presence of friends
who are supportive
and good role models
is highly influential to
teenage pregnancy .

Pregnant and Non

pregnant
(lowest frequency)
3. Joins in after school
youth development
activity is the least
influential to teenage
pregnancy.

Teens say that parents

influence their decisions
about sex more strongly
than friends and other
sources. Having good a
supportive and good model
of friends has a great impact
to non pregnant teens in
preventing teenage
pregnancy. Friends greatly
influence the way we make
decisions as well as our
behavior, thus teenagers
should carefully choose who
should be their true friends
because true friends will
bring pull you to success not
to bring you down.

Peer influence is particularly important during

adolescence.
We should encourage teens to carefully choose
their own friends. They should be reminded that
friends would do no harm for you and no peer
pressures. They should learn from their friends
who had gone to teenage pregnancy and learn
lesson from their mistakes. Being with the right
friends will always lead you to the right path.

When giving youth

meaningful roles in
developing a teenage
pregnancy programs ,the
way we include them their
awareness and knowledge
will increase, thus
preventing them not to
engage in sexual activity
teenagers
should be provided with

The school should include a policy and

strategies for enhancing academic outcomes
such as :
planning for an education, jobs, and careers
1. Tutoring students
2. Arts and creative expression
3.Sports and fitness
4.Curriculum-based sex and HIV education
programs
power in relationships: recognizing and
preventing violence, assault, and abuse

opportunities to participate
in programs that will enable
them to establish career and
educational
goals and provide them the
tools
to achieve it.

5.Drop-in centers and group discussions

6.Involving parents in sexuality education.