Unmet Needs for Family Planning among Adolescent Girls Giving Birth in Three Teaching Hospitals in Yaoundé

Many adolescent girls are pressured into having sex at an early age, which puts them at high risk of unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortions.The overall objective of this study was to evaluate the unmet needs of adolescents who give birth.A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in three university hospitals in Yaoundé, Cameroon: Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé Gyneco-Obstetrics and Pediatric Hospital and the District Hospital of Biyem-Assi, from February 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020.Included were any teenage mothers speaking English or French.Data were entered using CSPRO 7.3, analyzed by Excel 2010 and SPSS version 23.0.The tools used to express our results were the number, the frequency, the mean, the odds ratio (OR) and the P. P was significant if less than 5%.Of a total of 2692 births recorded, 188 (7%) were from adolescents.Of these, 157 fulfilling our selection criteria were recruited and data analyzed.The average age of the participants was 17.9 ± 1.12 years with extremes of 13 and 19, the average parity was 1.2 ± 0.4 with extremes of 1 and 3. Out of 157 participants, 2 who fell in the age range of 10 to 14 years (100%) and 106 of 155 (68.4%) whose age ranged from 15 to 19 years had unmet need for family planning.Only unmarried participants had unmet needs after multivariate analysis [aOR 2.4 (1.1 -5.3); p = 0.035)].Being unmarried was independently associated with the occurrence of unmet needs.The intensification of campaigns for provider behavior changes com-