EARLY MARRIAGE OF GIRLS AND IT'S RELATION WITH SOME INDICATORS OF RURAL WOMAN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEAL TH Ie IN ARAB MOTEER VILLAGE - ASSUIT1 | ||||
Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
Article 2, Volume 28, Issue 6, June 2003, Page 4529-4545 PDF (670.36 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2003.243592 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
M. M. Barakat,; M. A. Yehia; Jacinte I. Rehan | ||||
Rural Socrio1ogy and Agric, Extension Dept., Faculty of Agrlc., Ain Shams Unlv., Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The study aims to identify the- impacts of early marriage on some indicators of rural women's reproductive health and also the most important health complications of early marriage. • Arab Moteer village "_ .• EI-Fatth district a - • Assuit Governorate" was selected as the geographical field of the study. A purposive sample has been selected with a size of 215 rural women representing 6.5% of the total village famifies, on two conditions, that the woman has been married at age less than or equal to 16 and the current age less than or equal to 30 years old. A questionnaire was designed and collected using the personal interview (after it was pre-tested) during October, November and December 2001, then the data were tabulated and analyzed by using model "Moharam - Barakat· of X2 test. The results showed that nine variables affecting the reproductive health indicators concerning the study and explained about 32.6% of the total variance of reproductive health indicators as a dependent variable. The variables have been arranged according to Chi Square Coefficient (X2) and were. the following: husband age at marriage, monthlY family income, Livestock ho!ding size, wife current age, house density, husband occupation, wife age at marriage, number of family members and finally the socio-econornlc status of wife's current family. In addition to that, the results of the sample indicated that the most important health complications of early marriage showed that 63.3% of the women complained from "general weakness of the body". Followed by 25.6% of the total sample complained from' pain in bones". Then 5.1% complained from "delivery of handicapped babies", | ||||
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