Health care seeking behavior of adolescents: comparative study of two service delivery models.
Indian J Pediatr
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2008 Sep; 75(9): 895-9
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-82002
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To assess the perceived health problems and help seeking behaviour and utilization pattern of adolescent health clinics.METHODS:
A pre-tested, semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 360 school going adolescents who were selected by stratified random sampling from two sectors of Chandigarh where services were being provided by a school-based and dispensary-based adolescent health clinic.RESULTS:
Majority (81%) of the adolescents reported having some health problem during last three months prior to the survey; predominant (60%) problems were psychological and behavioural in nature. To resolve these problems boys consulted mainly friends/peers (48%) while girls consulted their mothers (63%). Compared to the dispensary-based adolescent health clinic, utilisation was significantly higher in a school-based clinic where proportion of psychological or behavioural problems reported was also significantly higher (P<0.01).CONCLUSION:
Adolescents have greater counselling needs for psychosocial problems than for medical problems. School-based adolescent health clinic was utilized more often than the dispensary-based clinic particularly for psychosocial problems.
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Peer Group
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School Health Services
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Patient Acceptance of Health Care
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Health Status
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Adolescent
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Adolescent Health Services
Type of study:
Qualitative research
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian J Pediatr
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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