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    Contraceptive use among Adolescent Girls(15-19 Years) in Ogun State, Nigeria
    (Lead City University, 2022-12) ONIYITAN Adedoyin Adedeji
    Adolescent contraception stemmed from that fact that a large majority of unwanted pregnancies , unsafe abortions, that results in deaths are from the age group 15-19 years. Its is expected that if these gropu of people have access to and are knowledheable about the use of modern contraception, the high rise of the aforementioned cases will reduce drastically. The objective of the study is to to assess the awareness and practice of contraception among the adolescent girls (15-19 years) in Ogun State The research adopted a cross sectional study using self- administered questionnaires.Three Hundred and Forty Seven (347) adolescent girls 15-19 years who are in the final secondary schools and early tertiary institutions were sampled which required their knowledge, access, and use of contraceptives. Descriptive bivariate and logistic regression was used to test associations between the contraceptive use and the independent variables. From the study, a higher proportion of the respondents was aware about contraception. Furthermore, the highest proportion of the respondents (87.7%) sourced their contraceptives in pharmarcy/drug store, with proportion of the respondents (46.0%) claiming to have heard about contraceptives before. The result from Table 7 shows that adolescent of age 15-17 are 1.28 less likely to use contraceptives compared to their counterpart who are 18-19 years at (0.477, 1.267 CI). The findings shows from the study that respondent who are practicing Islam are 1.2 less likely to use contraceptives compared to their counterpart who are practicing Christianity at (0.471, 1.278 CI). The findings also shows that people who are living in the rural are 2.09 less likely to use contraceptive compared to their counterpart who live in urban at (0.170, 1.346 CI). Word count – 272 Keywords – Adolescent, Contraceptive use, Knowledge