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Factors associated with sexual and reproductive health stigma among adolescent girls in Ghana.
| العنوان: | Factors associated with sexual and reproductive health stigma among adolescent girls in Ghana. |
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| المؤلفون: | Kelli Stidham Hall, Emmanuel Morhe, Abubakar Manu, Lisa H Harris, Elizabeth Ela, Dana Loll, Giselle Kolenic, Jessica L Dozier, Sneha Challa, Melissa K Zochowski, Andrew Boakye, Richard Adanu, Vanessa K Dalton |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 4, p e0195163 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | Using our previously developed and tested Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Stigma Scale, we investigated factors associated with perceived SRH stigma among adolescent girls in Ghana.We drew upon data from our survey study of 1,063 females 15-24yrs recruited from community- and clinic-based sites in two Ghanaian cities. Our Adolescent SRH Stigma Scale comprised 20 items and 3 sub-scales (Internalized, Enacted, Lay Attitudes) to measure stigma occurring with sexual activity, contraceptive use, pregnancy, abortion and family planning service use. We assessed relationships between a comprehensive set of demographic, health and social factors and SRH Stigma with multi-level multivariable linear regression models.In unadjusted bivariate analyses, compared to their counterparts, SRH stigma scores were higher among girls who were younger, Accra residents, Muslim, still in/dropped out of secondary school, unemployed, reporting excellent/very good health, not in a relationship, not sexually experienced, never received family planning services, never used contraception, but had been pregnant (all p-values |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5880390?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0195163 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/8498d231dd57476aa8d61c71fe878a2f |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.8498d231dd57476aa8d61c71fe878a2f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0195163 |