An Analysis of Early Marriage Determinant and Its Impact on Women’s Reproduction Health

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10.2991/assehr.k.200529.112How to use a DOI?

Keywords

early marriage determinant, women’s reproduction, health

Abstract

Early marriage is a world problem related to various health and social consequences for teenage girls. Designing effective health interventions to overcome early marriage needs to apply a community-based approach. However, it has not received sufficient attention from policy makers and health researchers in Indonesia. This study aims to explore the determinants of early marriage from the perspective of married women and find out the impact on reproductive health. This study is a qualitative descriptive study with a phenomenological approach. The research was conducted in Ketundan, Banyusidi and Petung Village, Pakis District, Magelang Regency. The sampling method used selected respondents who fulfil the requirements using the snowball technique. The data was collected through face-to-face and semi-structured interviews, and analysed using a conventional content analysis approach. This study indicated that there were two major themes in this study, namely 1) causal factors of early marriage in five categories of determinants of early marriage are economy, education, social-culture, internal factors, and parents’ roles; 2) the impact of early marriage on women’s reproductive health with three categories, namely: pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium. The result obtained by the research was that the practice of early marriage in the Pakis sub-district constituted by major factor, which was the economic factor that has a direct impact on women’s reproductive health, especially in the process of pregnancy, childbirth until after birth that affect the degree of health.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rohmayanti
AU  - Reni Mareta
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/04
TI  - An Analysis of Early Marriage Determinant and Its Impact on Women’s Reproduction Health
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 538
EP  - 541
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.112
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.112
ID  - 2020
ER  -