Patterns of and Factors Associated With Mental Health Service Utilization Among School-Going Adolescent Girls in Southwestern Uganda: A Latent Class Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The study aimed to improve understanding of patterns of multiple family group intervention engagement and associated factors among adolescent girls in a low-resource country, Uganda.

Methods

The data used in this analysis were part of a larger cluster randomized controlled trial consisting of 1260 adolescent girls across 47 public secondary schools. The sample in the current study consisted of 317 adolescent girls (ages 14-17 at enrollment) recruited from senior one and senior two classes across 12 secondary schools in the southwestern region of Uganda. Participants in this study participated in the multiple family group intervention-a 16-week manualized intervention. Attendance data from 16 sessions were used to identify the heterogeneity of intervention engagement

SUBMITTER: Byansi W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10270327 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature