The Influence of Lugbara Culture on Teenage Pregnancy in Oleba Subcounty Maracha District
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2025-05-20
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Uganda Christian University
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The study investigated the Influence of Lugbara Culture on Teenage Pregnancy in Oleba Sub county Maracha District. The objectives of the study were: To explore how cultural beliefs and values influenced teenage pregnancy, To find out how leisure activities influenced teenage pregnancy and To explore how cultural rituals influenced teenage pregnancy. The study of the research aimed at investigating the ways in which the culture contributed to teenage pregnancy with the case study being Oleba sub-county. The Social Learning Theory that was developed by Albert Bandura in 1977 was used to guide the study. The method of data collect were the in depth interviews. The area of the study was focusing on different communities bit more especially Oleba Sub County. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the key informants and other research participants. Conclusion. The researcher concluded that the research findings were majorly collected from experienced respondents who had passed through all the teenage challenges caused by the Lugbara culture. The social learning theory developed by Albert Bandura was in agreement with the research findings based on the research objectives and questions also. The traditional ceremonies like traditional marriages and introductions, leisure activities such as games and sports, drinking and traditional dances and ritual activities like koro and cele cele. Those were some of the crucial cultural practices that influenced teenage pregnancy so much in the Lugbara culture and communities. Recommendations. The research recommends that the teenagers should take control over the challenges that hinder their proper functioning though engaging in research studies that can help is solving the challenges that the teenagers encounter. The researcher recommends so because the data that was collected did not come from teenagers but rather from those age twenty four years and the elderly aged sixty six years of age. The researcher further recommends that more research should be carried out on culture influence on teenage pregnancy.
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