Reproductive health: knowledge, attitudes and needs of adolescents

Wright, Sue; Gabb, Roger; Ryan, Margaret M.

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb142292.x

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“…Interaction with school principals and teaching staff revealed that nothing much about hepatitis C information is part of curriculum and occasional visits by health professionals mostly target Tuberculosis, malaria and polio awareness. This study authenticates a similar knowledge, attitude and practice study among high school respondents on reproductive health, urban respondents were more knowledgeable and better practice than rural respondents [29]. Crosssectional studies conducted in Australia and Ghana to assess secondary school student's level of knowledge about sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis B disease in rural and urban areas also found that urban respondents has better knowledge about infection and prevention than rural respondents [12,30].…”

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confidence: 82%

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Cross Sectional Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Hepatitis C among Adolescents in Quetta, Pakistan

Mengal¹,

Tanver²,

Azam³

et al. 2014

Dentistry

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Background: Hepatitis C infection is growing threat and major burden on public health, worldwide prevalence of hepatitis C is 3% (170 million infected people). Approximately 10 million people are infected in Pakistan and prevalence is expected to be higher in remote areas. The aim of this study is to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of adolescents towards hepatitis C in Quetta Pakistan. Methods: A cross sectional descriptive study carried out from February 2013 till April 2013. Sample size of this study was 456 and method of sampling was four stage cluster sampling. Samples were randomly selected from 12 schools in urban and semi-urban parts of district Quetta. Equal number of participants were selected (228 Male and 228 Female) from urban and semi-urban settings. Close ended questionnaire was designed, checked and used to access knowledge, attitude and practice of the participants towards hepatitis C infection Results: Response rate of this survey was 100 % and mean number of "Yes" answers to knowledge, attitude and practice questions were 51%, 46% and 42% respectively. The respondent's in urban setting has two times (1.92 odds) higher knowledge, positive attitude and practice than semi-urban participants. Furthermore the respondent's in higher educational level has two times (1.7 odds) better knowledge, positive attitude and practice than lower educational level participants. Furthermore this study indicates to reveal some evidence of stigmatization being exhibited by participants in both setting. Higher level of school education (group III) and older age (group III) respondents in both setting has positive attitudes toward hepatitis C than lower level of education (group I) and younger age (group I). In addition it is observed that adolescents by growing age and entering higher education group are getting more knowledge and positive attitude and practice about hepatitis C disease and it's a positive trend. Conclusions: This study observed that knowledge, positive attitudes and practices towards hepatitis C among adolescents was partial in both setting. There are some important gaps need to be strengthened especially in semiurban setting and female group of participants. The results of study indicate that there is lack of understanding about infection control and prevention of hepatitis C among study participants. Thus there is need of critical level of public awareness in district Quetta, especially among adolescents, to decrease burden of hepatitis C infection. Extensive health education campaigns about hepatitis C are beneficial for adolescents, particularly to residents of semi-urban and rural areas.

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Section: Theory Of Reasoned Actionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…In this study hepatitis C related information was collected from participants. In KAP surveys, data are collected by interview questionnaire and then data analysed in qualitative or quantitative method [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34].…”

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Cross Sectional Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Hepatitis C among Adolescents in Quetta, Pakistan

Mengal¹,

Tanver²,

Azam³

et al. 2014

Dentistry

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“…There have also been studies and programs targeted to measure knowledge, attitude, and behavior regarding STDs Healton and Messeri 1993;O'Donnell et al 1994;Turner et al 1994;Weiss et al 1993;Wright et al 1991). These studies have been conducted through self-administered questionnaires or structured interviews, primarily at STD clinics or high school and university health services.…”

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Verbal Intercourse and Sexual Communication: Impediments to STD Prevention

Pliskin

1997

Med Anthropol Q

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This article explores the problems of risky sexual behavior by examining the ways people verbally negotiate sexual interaction regarding sexually transmitted diseases. Based on in-depth interviews with 124 adults (ages 21-63) who are infected with genital herpes, the article shows that knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases is not necessarily related to the action needed for their prevention. People are more afraid of being rejected by a partner than they are of contracting an STD (except, of course, AIDS). By examining difficulties people have with sexual health discourse and showing how these difficulties are related to both the problem of communicating politeness and the problem of representing the self and the sexual other, this article demonstrates that STD prevention programs overlook a very important emotional and communicative issue: the lack of a culturally sanctioned language with which to discuss sexual health with partners.

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“…Reproductive health issues are often poorly communicated or even ignored when dealing with young people,13 14 especially in those with a chronic disease like cystic fibrosis15 where the attention and expertise of health professionals is focused on stabilising the disease and on survival. Like other health care professionals,16 physicians specialising in cystic fibrosis describe embarrassment when talking about reproductive health issues,17 which is hardly surprising given their lack of training in this area.…”

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Reproductive and sexual health in adolescents with cystic fibrosis

Sawyer

1996

BMJ

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cians, and since enrofloxacin, a related quinolone, was licensed for use in food producing animals in 1994. An antibiotic which could be of crucial importance in the management of some patients must be used with discretion by clinicians and veterinarians to ensure its continued usefulness.Large national epidemics begin small. Killelea et al are not the first to describe how the PHLS's laboratory surveillance of salmonellas has been well ahead in speedily identifying the source of outbreaks in Britain and elsewhere. 4 6-8 Their paper, and the paper by Shohat et al, reminds us that there is a free market in salmonellosis; that international cooperation is essential; that identification and control depends on universal, not selective, surveillance and detailed typing of isolates including molecular methods; and that the PHLS's laboratory surveillance of salmonellosis is second to none.

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Reproductive health: knowledge, attitudes and needs of adolescents

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Cross Sectional Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Hepatitis C among Adolescents in Quetta, Pakistan

Cross Sectional Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Hepatitis C among Adolescents in Quetta, Pakistan

Verbal Intercourse and Sexual Communication: Impediments to STD Prevention

Reproductive and sexual health in adolescents with cystic fibrosis

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