Peer-reviewed article
Awareness on Early Marriage among Adolescent Girls in Selected Rural Area of Bangladesh
Sultana Lima Lobaba ·
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Early marriage is a curse for girl.In addition to this country like Bangladesh has to deal this issue cautiously and immediately.This crosscut survey like study was an attempt to assess awareness level of early marriage among adolescent girls in selected rural area of Bangladesh.Non-probability convenient sampling was used to collect sample of 300 girls.For each correct answer the score was one.Then accordingly the respondents were categorized in different groups as below: Good = Score ≥3, Fair = Score 2, Poor = Score 1. Half of the respondents represented from 10-13 years of age.Majority of the girls completed secondary level of education.Average monthly family income was 12226 BDT.Majority of the respondents (84.61%) had good awareness on age of marriage.About 15.38% of the study population had fair awareness on age to be pregnant whether majority of the respondents (84.61%) had good awareness.