Health care seeking behavior of adolescents: comparative study of two service delivery models.
dc.contributor.author | Kumar, Rajesh | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Prinja, Shankar | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lakshmi, P V M | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-09-06 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-30T13:45:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-09-06 | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-30T13:45:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-09-06 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | OBJECTIVES: To assess the perceived health problems and help seeking behaviour and utilization pattern of adolescent health clinics. METHODS: A pre-tested, semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 360 school going adolescents who were selected by stratified random sampling from two sectors of Chandigarh where services were being provided by a school-based and dispensary-based adolescent health clinic. RESULTS: Majority (81%) of the adolescents reported having some health problem during last three months prior to the survey; predominant (60%) problems were psychological and behavioural in nature. To resolve these problems boys consulted mainly friends/peers (48%) while girls consulted their mothers (63%). Compared to the dispensary-based adolescent health clinic, utilisation was significantly higher in a school-based clinic where proportion of psychological or behavioural problems reported was also significantly higher (P<0.01). CONCLUSION: Adolescents have greater counselling needs for psychosocial problems than for medical problems. School-based adolescent health clinic was utilized more often than the dispensary-based clinic particularly for psychosocial problems. | en_US |
dc.description.affiliation | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh City, India. dr.rajeshkumar@gmail.com | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Kumar R, Prinja S, Lakshmi PV. Health care seeking behavior of adolescents: comparative study of two service delivery models. Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 2008 Sep; 75(9): 895-9 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/82002 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.source.uri | https://medind.nic.in/icb/icbai.shtml | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Adolescent | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Adolescent Health Services --statistics & numerical data | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Female | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Health Status | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | India | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Male | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Mother-Child Relations | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Patient Acceptance of Health Care --psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Peer Group | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | Questionnaires | en_US |
dc.subject.mesh | School Health Services --statistics & numerical data | en_US |
dc.title | Health care seeking behavior of adolescents: comparative study of two service delivery models. | en_US |
dc.type | Comparative Study | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.type | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | en_US |
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