Background
Currently in Ethiopia,
young people’s sexual and reproductive health services are limited and there is
a growing issue of confidentiality and affordability of these health services.
Moreover, the available services provided are not sensitive to the special
needs of young people. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess young people’s
sexual and reproductive health service utilization and its associated factors
in Awabel district, Northwest Ethiopia.
Methods
A community based
cross-sectional study was conducted among 781 randomly selected young people
using a pre-tested structured questionnaires in Awabel district, Northwest
Ethiopia. Data were entered into Epi data version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS
version 16.0 software.
Results
The mean age of
respondents were 17.80 (+ 2.65) years. About 41% of young people had utilized
sexual and reproductive health services. Young people from families of higher
family expenditure, lived with mothers, participated in peer education and
lived near to a Health Center were more likely to utilize sexual and
reproductive health services. Furthermore, those who had a parental discussion
on sexual and reproductive health (AOR (95% C.I): 2.23 (1.43, 3.46)) and ever
had sexual intercourse (AOR (95% C.I): 1.88 (1.30, 2.71)) were more likely to
utilize the service than their counterparts. On the other hand, those young
people lived with their father and had a primary level of educational
attainment was less likely to utilize the service.
Conclusion
Utilization of sexual
and reproductive health services is low which needs a great attention where; if
not intervened, young people might engage in risky sexual activities.
Therefore, it needs a concerted effort from all the concerned bodies to improve
their service utilization and thereby reduce the burden of young people’s
disease and disabilities associated with sexual and reproductive health.
Below: Situations how first sexual intercourse was started among young people in Northwest Ethiopia, 2015 (n = 474).
Below: Situations how first sexual intercourse was started among young people in Northwest Ethiopia, 2015 (n = 474).
Below: Reasons of young people for not utilizing SRH services in Northwest Ethiopia, 2015 (n = 439)
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By: Atitegeb Ayehu,1 Teketo Kassaw,2,* and Getachew Hailu2
1Students Clinic, Debre Markos University,
Debre Markos, Ethiopia
2Department of Public Health, College of
Medicine and Health Sciences, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia
National
Institute of Health, ITALY
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