Factors associated with attrition in a longitudinal study of health risk behaviours and conditions among adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Use of longitudinal design in research improves understanding of adolescent health. In this paper, we present factors associated with attrition in a pilot longitudinal study among adolescents in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Methods

Adolescents were recruited from private and government-owned junior secondary schools using multi-stage sampling and interviewed over three data collection waves (2017, 2018 and 2019).

Results

A total of 1067 (99.4%) of the 1073 adolescents recruited were willing to participate and were interviewed in wave one. Mean age at baseline was 11.9 ± 1.2 years and 34.9% owned a personal mobile phone. Of the 1067 adolescents, 192 (18.0%) were not willing to be followed up while 875 (82.0%) were willing to be followed up by home visit (70.2%), phone c

SUBMITTER: Olumide AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11970656 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature