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Table 3 Association between teenage pregnancy and sexual risk behaviours among adolescent girls who ever had sex (N = 5060)

From: Teenage pregnancy rates and associations with other health risk behaviours: a three-wave cross-sectional study among South African school-going adolescents

Risky behaviours

Ever been pregnant (r)

First had sex at age ≤13

.056b (95 % CI: 0.03–0.08)

Number of sexual partners

.033a (95 % CI: 0.01–0.04)

Ever used alcohol before sex

.012 (95 % CI: 0.02–0.04)

Always used a condom during sex

-.084b (95 % CI: -0.11–-0.06)

Ever been forced to have sex

.032a (95 % CI: 0.01–0.06)

Ever forced someone to have sex

.046b (95 % CI: 0.02–0.07)

Ever been hit by boyfriend

.048b (95 % CI: 0.01–0.08)

Ever hit your boyfriend

.057b (95 % CI: 0.03–0.08)

  1. a Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
  2. b Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)