"Our mothers do not tell us": a qualitative study of adolescent girls' perspectives on sexual and reproductive health in rural Nepal.

ABSTRACT: Adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries continue to face poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH). In Nepal, early marriage and motherhood, gender-based violence, and unmet need for contraception remain pervasive. Adolescent girls in rural areas bear a disproportionate burden of poor reproductive health outcomes, but there are limited context-specific data. This is a qualitative study to identify factors that impact adolescent girls' utilisation of and access to SRH services in a rural district of Nepal. We conducted 21 individual interviews with adolescent girls aged 15-19 years, and three focus group discussions with community health workers. We used an inductive analytic approach to identify emergent and recurrent themes and present the themes using the social ecological m

SUBMITTER: Tiwari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9225746 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature