Atnafu, Natnael (2017) Youth Friendly Service Utilization and Associated Factors among Preparatory School Students in Sodo Town, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Youth is a period of life in which an individual passes from significant physiological, psychological and social changes that expose them at high risk of reproductive health problems. Even though, there were several strategies approved to solve reproductive health problems of young people including international conference on population development, they still face with unsafe abortion, unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, acquired human immune deficiency syndrome, lack of provision of condoms and unmet need of family planning. Objective: To assess youth friendly service utilization and factor among preparatory schools students in Sodo Town, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, Ethiopia 2017. Methods: An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted among preparatory school students in Sodo Town. Stratified sampling technique was used based on the type of school they had attended. Proportional allocation was done to both government and private schools and to each grade to select 398 respondents. The data was entered with Epi-data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 22. Descriptive statistics was done and result presented with tables and graphs based on the nature of the variables. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression was done .The candidate variables with p-value<0.25 in Bivariate analysis were moved to multivariate analysis to identify their significance with dependent variables and those p-Value < 0.05 were taken as independent factors affecting youth friendly service utilization. Result: Out of the total respondents 40.6% reported that they have ever used YFRHS service in the past twelve months. Youth friendly service utilization was significantly associated with sex(AOR:2.106,95%CI:1.115,2.529),pocket money(AOR:0.60,95%CI:0.379,0.949) and using school as a source of information(AOR=0.589,95%CI:0.372,0.933). Conclusion and recommendation: Youth friendly service utilization among preparatory school students in Sodo town was low. Factors like sex, pocket money and school as a source of information were predictors of youth friendly service utilization. Awareness creations on YFRHS and service dimension have to be enhanced.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Youth friendly Service, Utilization, Sodo Town, Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2018 12:57 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2018 12:57 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7711 |
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