Deliveries Among Adolescent Mothers in Rural Bangladesh: Who Provides Assistance?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: This paper sought to identify factors associated with modes of delivery assistance among adolescent mothers in rural Bangladesh. METHODOLOGY: Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey of 2004 data for the last 5 years (N = 867) were used. Univariate statistical analysis and multivariate logistic regression methods were employed in analyzing the data. RESULTS: We observed that almost all adolescent deliveries (93.6 %) took place at home, and most (80.1%) were assisted by untrained traditional birth attendants, relatives or neighbours. Only 8.8% were attended by medically trained persons. Main factors affecting delivery practices among adolescents were mass media exposure, parents' education, antenatal care received, type of toilet facilities and visits by family planning workers (FPW), wanted last child and told about pregnancy complications. CONCLUSIONS: RESULTS indicate several policy options to improve outcomes for adolescent mothers: (a) create awareness of appropriate behaviours during pregnancy, delivery and post-partum period, (b) ensure maternal healthcare centres are available, especially rurally, for antenatal care, expand and improve the quality of home births by trained providers and introduce post-partum visits, (c) increase the number of visits by family welfare visitors/family welfare assistants (FWV/FWA), and (d) emphasize adolescent education to make a lasting impact on the overall health of adolescent mothers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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