Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

Factors Associated with Events in Early Marrige in Banjar District

1Health Policy Management and Promotion Department, Public Health Study Program, Medical Faculty, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarbaru

2Nutrition and Reproductive Health Department, Public Health Study Program, Medical Faculty, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarbaru

3Student of Reproductive Health Department Public Health Study Program, Medical Faculty, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarbaru

Online published on 18 July, 2017.

Abstract

Early marriage is one cause of perinatal mortality, mothers who are too young are often emotionally and physically immature and mothers’ knowledge of antenatal care is still lacking. National data of BKKBN in 2014 showed the percentage of early marriages in Kalimantan Selatan is 55, 8 per 1.000 population exceeded the national average figure of early marriage at 40 per 1.000 population. The objective of this research is to describe factors associated with events in early marriage in Banjar distric. This research is a quantitative using a case-control design. The results showed factors associated with early marriage is the attitude of girls (p-value=0, 011), culture girls (p-value = 0.011) and exposure of pornography (p-value = 0.000). Therefore, it needs socialization maturation and increasing the age of marriage counseling program cares for teenagers in order to reduce the incidence of early marriage.

Keywords

Attitude, culture, exposure of pornography, girl, early marriage