Perceptions and Experiences of Teenage Pregnancies in Refugee and Migrant Adolescents on the Thai-Myanmar Border

The study will be conducted as follows:

• 12-24 individual interviews with pregnant or postnatal adolescent girls (<20 years);
• 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 non-pregnant female adolescents (<20 years);
• 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 adolescent men (<20 years);
• 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 Shoklo malaria research unit antenatal care staff;

Interviews and focus group discussion will be conducted with study participants who agree to participate in discussions about teenage pregnancy and motherhood, sexual and reproductive health. In-depth interviews and focus group discussion will be conducted in private meeting rooms in proximity to the antenatal clinic waiting areas. In-depth interviews and Focus group discussion will be co-facilitated by the principal investigator and a trained counsellor/midwife fluent in Karen, Burmese and English. Focus group discussion will be run separately for Burmese- and Karen-speaking participants and participants will be separated by subgroup. Focus group discussion will include 6-10 participants per group and for each focus group discussion to last between 45-60 minutes. Individual in-depth interviews will last approximately 60 minutes each.