Assessment of reproductive health service utilization by secondary school adolescents in Addis Ababa
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2018-06
Authors
Tebebe, Aklile
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Addis Ababa Universty
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Background: Young people compromise almost half of the world’s population, which is nearly 85% for developing countries. Since youth is an intermediate time that makes a pavement to adulthood and is important for laying the foundation of good health in later time, effective intervention of sexual and reproductive health service of the youth protects both the old age and the coming generation. But, there is lack of resources and trained man power for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services.
Objective: to assess the magnitude of reproductive health service utilisation among secondary school adolescents in Addis Ababa.
Methods: School-based quantitative cross sectional study was carried out among age 15-19 years age old selected secondary schools adolescents in Addis Ababa. Using the random sampling a total of 844 school adolescents (aged 15-19 years) were proportionally allocated and interviewed from 10 high schools. A pretested structured questionnaire was employed to obtain the necessary information after getting both written and verbal permission from the concerned bodies. The collected data was interred in to Epidata and analyzed using SPSS version 20 statistical packages and the degree of association between dependent and independent variables were assessed using bivariate and multivariate analysis.
Result:-From the total 844 participants assessed on utilization of reproductive health services 305(36.1%) respondents utilize at least one from the five main RH service options. The odds of utilization among respondents who said RH service available in their school was 1.682(1.232, 2.295) times higher than those who have no RH service in their school. The odds of utilization among respondents who have Knowledge on type of reproductive health services types were 2.934(1.906, 4.515) times higher than those who do not have knowledge on type of RH service types.
Conclusions: - Generally this study disclosed that RH service utilization among High school adolescent’s in Addis Ababa was 36.1%. Knowledge about RH facilities that provide services and availability of services of choice by adolescents were significant predictors of RH utilization.
Recommendations:-
Conducting promotion about the services that are given in RH facility is mandatory to increase access by high school students.
Availing RH facilities by type of services that adolescents wanted will increase access to utilization.
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reproductive health,adolescent