ArticleSexual and reproductive health matters2021
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- Unveiling barriers to reproductive health awareness among rural adolescents: a systematic review.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Pooled it
- Promoting sexual and reproductive health in development and governance priorities for youth in Nepal: a qualitative exploration using reproductive justice framework.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- Determinant factors of sexual and reproductive health literacy among adolescents in Indonesia: A national population-based study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2026Article
- "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
- Women's Educating and Coping Strategies for Cultivating Supportive Web-Based Spaces for Discussing Sexual and Reproductive Health: Co-Design Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- 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
- Exploring comprehensive sexuality education experiences and barriers among students, teachers and principals in Nepal: a qualitative study.Reproductive health · 2024Article
- Reducing the Stigma of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Through Supportive and Protected Online Communities.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2024Article
- Parental knowledge and communication with their adolescent on sexual and reproductive health issues in Nepal.PloS one · 2023Article
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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 model. Individual-level factors that contribute to low uptake of services among adolescent girls include lack of knowledge, self-perceived lack of need, low decision-making autonomy, and shyness. Interpersonal factors that impact access include unsupportive family norms, absence of open communication, and need for permission from family members to access care. At the community level, disparate gender norms, son preference, and judgment by community members affect adolescent SRH. Inadequate sex education, far travel distance to facilities, lack of female healthcare providers and teachers, and inability to access abortion services were identified as organisational and systems barriers. Stigma was a factor cross-cutting several levels. Our findings suggest the need for multi-level strategies to address these factors to improve adolescent girls' SRH.
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