Baseline sociodemographic and sexual and reproductive health characteristics of the AdSEARCH adolescent cohort study participants in rural Bangladesh: a cohort profile.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In Bangladesh, evidence on the long-term trajectory of adolescents' sexual and reproductive health (SRH) remains limited, largely due to the lack of longitudinal data to assess the changes over time. To address this gap, the Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (AdSEARCH) project of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) set up an adolescent cohort study aimed at documenting changes in SRH knowledge, attitudes and practices, and identifying the factors affecting these changes. This article presents the baseline sociodemographic and SRH characteristics of this cohort as a pathway for future analyses.

Participants

This cohort study included 2713 adolescents from the Baliakandi Health and Demographic Surveillance System

SUBMITTER: Alam A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12481303 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature