Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health?
Bolatito O. Ogunbiyi,
Sarah Baird,
Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer
et al.
Abstract:Despite recent declines in early childbearing in Ethiopia, improved sexual and reproductive health continues to elude many adolescent girls, partially due to constrained agency and role models. This study examined the relationship between agency, role models and two sexual and reproductive health outcomes, ideal age at childbirth and attitude towards gender-differentiated parental control, among adolescent girls in Ethiopia. Agency and role model presence were positively associated with ideal age at childbirth… Show more
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