Trial reportPloS one2022
Assessment of the quality of sexual and reproductive health services delivered to adolescents at Ujala clinics: A qualitative study in Rajasthan, India.
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- Healthcare Providers' Experience in Implementing the Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Services at Public Health Facilities in KwaZulu-Natal: A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- "Sexuality education is a double edge-sword…": a qualitative study on perceptions of school teachers on sexual and reproductive health of adolescent girls in Eastern India.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Understanding sexual and reproductive health need of unmarried adolescents and youth in urban slums: evidence from a formative study in Uttar Pradesh, India.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Peer Education Initiatives for Promoting Adolescent Health in the South-East Asia Region: Findings From Desk Review and Key Informant Interviews.AJPM focus · 2025Article
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- Understanding barriers to young people's utilisation of sexual and reproductive health services in Asia-Pacific countries: a qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Implementation of Adolescent- and Youth-Friendly Services in the Selected Primary Healthcare Facilities in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- Review of the India Adolescent Health Strategy in the context of disease burden among adolescents.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Article
- Lessons learned from conceptualising and operationalising the National Adolescent Health Programme or Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram's Learning Districts Initiative in six districts of India.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Article
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- Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCS) in India and their compliance with government benchmarks: A scoping review.F1000Research · 2023Article
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Abstract
The Adolescent Friendly Health Clinic (AFHCs), a key component of the Government of India's National Adolescent Health Programme a.k.a. Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK), aims to increase the accessibility and utilization of sexual-reproductive health services by adolescents and youth. However, low quality of care provided at AFHCs by counsellors calls for attention. We, thus, explore both the clients' and providers' perspectives using the World Health Organization's (WHO) global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents to assess the quality of the sexual reproductive health service delivery at AFHCs in Rajasthan, India. We conducted a qualitative study, comprising observation of the service delivery using mystery clients (MCs) (n = 12) and in-depth interviews with the counsellors (n = 4) in four AFHCs. Interviews were transcribed in local language and were translated in English. The transcripts were coded thematically. Our study, using five of the eight WHO global standards for quality health-care services for adolescents highlighted several gaps in the quality-of-service delivery at AFHCs. We unearth various intricacies related to the quality of the services provided at the AFHCs by referring to the relevant input, process, and the output criteria of WHO global standards I, III, IV, V and VI. Our study calls for efforts to improve- (i) the counsellors' competencies to increase adolescents' health literacy on sensitive topics, (ii) the facilities at the clinic to ensure privacy, comfort and confidentiality of the adolescents seeking services, (iii) the referrals to improve appropriate package of services, and (iv) an overall environment to ensure an equity and non-discrimination for all the adolescents. Our findings unearth the barriers that both the service providers and the adolescents face at the AFHCs and underscore the need for regular monitoring and evaluation of the AFHCs to strengthen the facility-based intervention of the RKSK programme.
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