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Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCS) in India and their compliance with government benchmarks: A scoping review

Background: Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCs) are one of the critical pillars of India’s Adolescent Health Programme-Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram that seeks to enable all adolescents to realize their full potential by making informed decisions concerning their health and by accessing...

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Autores principales: Bahl, Deepika, Bassi, Shalini, Manna, Subhanwita, Arora, Monika
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10442587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37614564
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.131112.2
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author Bahl, Deepika
Bassi, Shalini
Manna, Subhanwita
Arora, Monika
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description Background: Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCs) are one of the critical pillars of India’s Adolescent Health Programme-Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram that seeks to enable all adolescents to realize their full potential by making informed decisions concerning their health and by accessing the services. Thus, a review was conceptualised to assess the compliance of AFHCs with the benchmark proposed by the Government under Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram. Methods: Three databases (PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar) were searched for articles published between 2014 and December 2022. A snowball search strategy was also used to retrieve all published articles. Based on the search strategy eight studies were included. Results: AFHCs are not fully compliant with all the benchmarks proposed by the government of India. Evidence from the primary studies showed that the benchmarks need attention as privacy was lacking (six out of seven studies), unavailability of Information Education and Communication material (four out of five), signages (two out of four), referrals (one out of two), and judgemental attitude of health care providers (one out of 3). Conclusions: There is a pressing need to focus on the fulfilment of these gaps to make the clinics adolescent-friendly. This might increase the utilisation of available services in AFHCs by adolescents and will improve their health. The improved health will catalyse achieving the Sustainable Development Goals indicators that are associated with nutrition, reproductive health, sexual and intimate partner violence, child marriage, education, and employment.
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spelling pubmed-104425872023-08-23 Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCS) in India and their compliance with government benchmarks: A scoping review Bahl, Deepika Bassi, Shalini Manna, Subhanwita Arora, Monika F1000Res Systematic Review Background: Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCs) are one of the critical pillars of India’s Adolescent Health Programme-Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram that seeks to enable all adolescents to realize their full potential by making informed decisions concerning their health and by accessing the services. Thus, a review was conceptualised to assess the compliance of AFHCs with the benchmark proposed by the Government under Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram. Methods: Three databases (PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar) were searched for articles published between 2014 and December 2022. A snowball search strategy was also used to retrieve all published articles. Based on the search strategy eight studies were included. Results: AFHCs are not fully compliant with all the benchmarks proposed by the government of India. Evidence from the primary studies showed that the benchmarks need attention as privacy was lacking (six out of seven studies), unavailability of Information Education and Communication material (four out of five), signages (two out of four), referrals (one out of two), and judgemental attitude of health care providers (one out of 3). Conclusions: There is a pressing need to focus on the fulfilment of these gaps to make the clinics adolescent-friendly. This might increase the utilisation of available services in AFHCs by adolescents and will improve their health. The improved health will catalyse achieving the Sustainable Development Goals indicators that are associated with nutrition, reproductive health, sexual and intimate partner violence, child marriage, education, and employment. F1000 Research Limited 2023-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10442587/ /pubmed/37614564 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.131112.2 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Bahl D et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCS) in India and their compliance with government benchmarks: A scoping review
title_sort adolescent friendly health clinics (afhcs) in india and their compliance with government benchmarks: a scoping review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10442587/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.131112.2
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