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Introduction: Youth tend to be less informed, less experienced, and less comfortable in
accessing reproductive health services than adults. Seventy-eight percent of the 1.7 billion
young people in the world live in the developing world; 22% of the total population of Ethiopia
and 20.9% of Amhara region is young. Ministry of Health developed Youth friendly reproductive
health service (YFRHS) standards and guidelines to address health problems of the youth.
Adolescents can be excluded by poor service delivery or their own lack of awareness worldwide.
Studies in Africa including Ethiopia showed that utilization of youth friendly reproductive health
,._ service is very low or neglected. It is also under utilized in towns of Amhara regional state. Some
factors for poor utilization of Youth Friendly Reproductive Health Services are socio
demographic and cultural, inconvenient locations & working hours, lack of awareness, feeling
healthy, unsupportive provider attitudes and sex, quality of services, lack of confidentiality and
privacy, and high costs of the services.
Objective: To assess the level of youth friendly reproductive health service utilization and
associated factors among Debre Tabor town youth.
Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study triangulated with in-depth interview study
design will be conducted in Debre Tabor town from June to July 2014. Structured interviewer
administered questionnaire will be used to collect data from 387 (selected by systematic random
sampling from four kebeles of the town) sampled youths about their utilization of Youth Friendly
Reproductive Health Services and associated factors, and in-depth interview guide for
fdentifying associated factors. The data will be entered by epi.info 3.5.3 and analyzed by SPSS
version20.0. Logistic regression will be used to identify predictive variables. Ethical approval will
be ensured from Bahir Dar University.
Budget: the research needs a total of 32, 120.00 |
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