FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO PREGNANCIES AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN KENYAN UNIVERSITY: A CASE OF KIRIRI WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY

Abstract

In Kenya, unplanned pregnancies, especially among diploma and degree students remain a challenge. As colleges strive to improve student success and completion, helping students delay pregnancy and parenting means one less factor that can interfere with their study period. However, pregnancy planning and prevention is not something most universities address. In an effort to help close this gap, a survey will be conducted at KWUST to identify and describe factors that contributes to pregnancies among diploma and degree students enrolled at the university. A quantitative descriptive survey will be done by using self-administered questionnaires. The study will target diploma and degree students who are already pregnant and those who have in a near past delivered babies and are back to study. The collected data will be analyzed and presented using frequencies, descriptive analysis and multiple regression to detect which factor that contributes more to pregnancies than the other.