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Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health?
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 ou...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10523787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37759195 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02659-8 |
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author | Ogunbiyi, Bolatito O. Baird, Sarah Bingenheimer, Jeffrey B. Vyas, Amita |
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description | 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 (β = 0.23, p < .01 and β = 0.77, p < .001, respectively). Having family members, friends or famous individuals as role models was significantly associated with an increase of 1.45 years (p < .01), 1.32 years (p < .05) and 1.01 years (p < .01) in ideal age at childbirth, respectively, compared to having no role model. Agency was positively associated with attitude towards gender-differentiated parental control of adolescent behaviors (OR = 1.18, p < .001). This study highlights the need for interventions aimed at increasing agency and providing role models for adolescent girls. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12905-023-02659-8. |
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spelling | pubmed-105237872023-09-28 Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health? Ogunbiyi, Bolatito O. Baird, Sarah Bingenheimer, Jeffrey B. Vyas, Amita BMC Womens Health Research 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 (β = 0.23, p < .01 and β = 0.77, p < .001, respectively). Having family members, friends or famous individuals as role models was significantly associated with an increase of 1.45 years (p < .01), 1.32 years (p < .05) and 1.01 years (p < .01) in ideal age at childbirth, respectively, compared to having no role model. Agency was positively associated with attitude towards gender-differentiated parental control of adolescent behaviors (OR = 1.18, p < .001). This study highlights the need for interventions aimed at increasing agency and providing role models for adolescent girls. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12905-023-02659-8. BioMed Central 2023-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10523787/ /pubmed/37759195 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02659-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Ogunbiyi, Bolatito O. Baird, Sarah Bingenheimer, Jeffrey B. Vyas, Amita Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health? |
title | Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health? |
title_full | Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health? |
title_fullStr | Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health? |
title_full_unstemmed | Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health? |
title_short | Agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health? |
title_sort | agency and role models: do they matter for adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health? |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10523787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37759195 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-023-02659-8 |
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