Adolescent Male Reproductive Health: Awareness and Behavior among Peri-Urban and Rural Boys in West Bengal, India

Das, Bhubon Mohan; Ray, Sajal

doi:10.3149/jmh.0602.79

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“…It is essential that adolescents and students know how to make informed choices and must be equipped with adequate knowledge about reproductive health, as well as to develop positive or favorable attitudes so as to adopt safer sexual behaviors. Focusing on adolescents' reproductive health is both a challenge and an opportunity for health care providers (11) . Adolescent females often have lack of basic reproductive health information and access to affordable confidential reproductive health services.…”

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Health Education Intervention on Knowledge and Practices about reproductive health among Adolescent Females Students

Elsabagh¹

2017

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Health Education Intervention on Knowledge and Practices about reproductive health among Adolescent Females Students

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2017

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“…A number of NGO and government work to integrate reproductive health care information and services into the various other services provided at the service-delivery level. However; most participants believed that service providers at health posts do not keep information confidential and do not behave nicely if sexual health problems are shared with them [4,13,14]. …”

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Assessment of adolescents’ communication on sexual and reproductive health matters with parents and associated factors among secondary and preparatory schools’ students in Debremarkos town, North West Ethiopia

2014

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BackgroundSexuality and reproductive health are among the most fundamental aspects of life. Poor parental involvement in preparing young people for safe sexual life and good reproductive health was part of the blame for the lack of skills on sexual decision making. Despite the growing needs, there is no adequate health service or counseling specifically suitable for this specific age group and research on the role of parents in this process has yielded inconsistent results.ObjectiveThe objective of the study is to assess adolescents’ communication on sexual and reproductive health issues with parents and associated factors among secondary and preparatory schools students in Debremarkos town.MethodsSchool based study was conducted among secondary and preparatory schools students in Debremarkos town, from April 8 to 21, 2012. Multistage sampling and self administered questionnaires were employed.ResultsThe proportion of the students who had discussion on sexual & reproductive health issues with their parent was found to be 254 (36.9%). Mother who able to read and write (AOR = 2; 95% CI 1.3 to 3.1), adolescents accepting discussion of sexual & reproductive health issues (AOR = 2.5 95% CI 1.3 to 4.5), adolescents who ever got SRH information (AOR = 2; 95% CI 1.4 to 2.9), adolescents who ever had sexual intercourse (AOR = 1.7; 95% CI 1.1 to 2.6) were found to have significant positive associations, and being grade 12 students (AOR = 0.4; 95% CI 0.2 to 0.7) and having less than three family size (AOR = 0.5; 95% CI 0.2 to 0.9) showed significant negative associations.Conclusion and recommendationStudy unveils that parent –adolescent communications on sexual and reproductive health issues is low, only about one third of the students were communicating on SRH issues. Therefore; there is a need to equip and educate parents on different sexual & reproductive health issues. Comprehensive family life education should also be initiated for the students and parents.

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“…Similar findings were observed in a study of Chayal et al, [7] (39% boys), Sathe et al, [10] (48.8% boys) and Khushwah, [16] found 67%boys perceived it as a normal phenomenon. Whereas Das et al, [17] observed that 47.2% boys perceived this event as a sexual problem.…”

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Awareness and Perception about Sexual and Reproductive Health Problems among School Going Male Adolescents in Urban Area of Rohtak

Rajawat¹

2018

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Adolescent Male Reproductive Health: Awareness and Behavior among Peri-Urban and Rural Boys in West Bengal, India

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Health Education Intervention on Knowledge and Practices about reproductive health among Adolescent Females Students

Health Education Intervention on Knowledge and Practices about reproductive health among Adolescent Females Students

Assessment of adolescents’ communication on sexual and reproductive health matters with parents and associated factors among secondary and preparatory schools’ students in Debremarkos town, North West Ethiopia

Awareness and Perception about Sexual and Reproductive Health Problems among School Going Male Adolescents in Urban Area of Rohtak

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