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A cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in Jimma town

BACKGROUND: Adolescents and youths in Ethiopia have limited access to reproductive health services designed to address their needs. Therefore, the study aims to assess adolescents' and youth’s sexual practice, contraceptive use, and behavioral patterns towards safe sexual exercise. METHODS: A q...

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Autores principales: Tucho, Gudina Terefe, Workneh, Netsanet, Abera, Mubarek, Abafita, Jemal
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9158206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35642045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40834-022-00174-z
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author Tucho, Gudina Terefe
Workneh, Netsanet
Abera, Mubarek
Abafita, Jemal
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Workneh, Netsanet
Abera, Mubarek
Abafita, Jemal
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description BACKGROUND: Adolescents and youths in Ethiopia have limited access to reproductive health services designed to address their needs. Therefore, the study aims to assess adolescents' and youth’s sexual practice, contraceptive use, and behavioral patterns towards safe sexual exercise. METHODS: A quantitative cross-sectional study design was used on 374 students selected from high school and vocational colleges to assess their sexual experience and contraceptive use and related perceptions using pre-tested self-administered semi-structured questionnaires. We used descriptive analyses to report their sexual and reproductive health status and logistic regression to examine the association between contraceptive use and other variables. RESULTS: The results show that 52.7% of the respondents (students) migrated or moved from rural to urban to continue their high school and college education at urban. 41.7% of the respondents were with less than 18 years, of which 75.9% of them already initiated sexual intercourse. Of all the students who started sexual intercourse (51.1%), only 30.9% used contraceptives, but condom use accounts for 49.2%. Overall, 84.8% of those who practiced sexual intercourse were at risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases due to not using a condom. About 3% of the respondents reported unwanted pregnancy experiences, of which 64% of these pregnancies were reported to be aborted. CONCLUSION: Adolescents and youths attending high schools and College are at increased risk of acquiring HIV and unwanted pregnancy due to low levels of contraceptive use. Specifically, a designed youths-friendly reproductive health service is needed to avert related problems and contribute to sustainable development goals.
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spelling pubmed-91582062022-06-02 A cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in Jimma town Tucho, Gudina Terefe Workneh, Netsanet Abera, Mubarek Abafita, Jemal Contracept Reprod Med Research BACKGROUND: Adolescents and youths in Ethiopia have limited access to reproductive health services designed to address their needs. Therefore, the study aims to assess adolescents' and youth’s sexual practice, contraceptive use, and behavioral patterns towards safe sexual exercise. METHODS: A quantitative cross-sectional study design was used on 374 students selected from high school and vocational colleges to assess their sexual experience and contraceptive use and related perceptions using pre-tested self-administered semi-structured questionnaires. We used descriptive analyses to report their sexual and reproductive health status and logistic regression to examine the association between contraceptive use and other variables. RESULTS: The results show that 52.7% of the respondents (students) migrated or moved from rural to urban to continue their high school and college education at urban. 41.7% of the respondents were with less than 18 years, of which 75.9% of them already initiated sexual intercourse. Of all the students who started sexual intercourse (51.1%), only 30.9% used contraceptives, but condom use accounts for 49.2%. Overall, 84.8% of those who practiced sexual intercourse were at risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases due to not using a condom. About 3% of the respondents reported unwanted pregnancy experiences, of which 64% of these pregnancies were reported to be aborted. CONCLUSION: Adolescents and youths attending high schools and College are at increased risk of acquiring HIV and unwanted pregnancy due to low levels of contraceptive use. Specifically, a designed youths-friendly reproductive health service is needed to avert related problems and contribute to sustainable development goals. BioMed Central 2022-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9158206/ /pubmed/35642045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40834-022-00174-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis 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.
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Tucho, Gudina Terefe
Workneh, Netsanet
Abera, Mubarek
Abafita, Jemal
A cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in Jimma town
title A cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in Jimma town
title_full A cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in Jimma town
title_fullStr A cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in Jimma town
title_full_unstemmed A cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in Jimma town
title_short A cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in Jimma town
title_sort cross-sectional study design to assess the sexual experiences and contraceptive use of adolescents and youths attending high school and college in jimma town
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9158206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35642045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40834-022-00174-z
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