Sexual and reproductive health service utilization of young girls in rural Ethiopia: What are the roles of health extension workers? Community-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Little is known about the extent to which Health Extension Programme (HEP) has played its role to increase service uptake among young girls. This study aims to estimate the status of young girls' sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services utilisation in rural Ethiopia and to examine the role of health extension workers (HEWs) in this regard.

Design

A cross-sectional study.

Setting

A community-based study among all nine regions of Ethiopia.

Participants

Nine hundred and two young girls aged 15-24 years were included in this study.

Method

We used data from the national HEP assessment, collected from March to May 2019. Multilevel binary logistic regression was used to investigate the association between exposure to HEP and SRH services utilisat

SUBMITTER: Jisso M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494555 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature