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  title info:
    title: Sexual and reproductive health service knowledge and use among youth in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal: influence of gender-power relations
  name:
    name part: Tamang, Laxmi.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    date issued: c2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 261p.
  abstract: Abstract: Background: Young peoples' sexual and reproductive health is a major public health concern across the globe. This is especially so in developing countries like Nepal due to poor healthcare delivery system as well as harmful traditional socio-cultural values around gender roles and norms that remain ingrained in every sphere of private and social life. Aims: The aim of this body of research is to examine both gender-power relations amongst youth in Nepal and to examine knowledge of sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including access and utilisation services. The specific aims include examining the associations between socio-demographic factors and knowledge of SRH and uptake of sexual and reproductive health services. It also seeks to explore the factors associated with gender equitable norms in relation to sexuality and reproductive health. Methods: This research used a mixed methods approach, combing both quantitative and qualitative methods. For the quantitative research, data obtained from household level cross- sectional survey among 680 males and 720 females age 15 to 24 years. Qualitative data were obtained from 72 participants in eight focus group discussions and 11 in-depth interviews, conducted in the five major urban cities in the Kathmandu Valley. Results: The quantitative study found that young people's knowledge about contraception, fertility and unwanted pregnancy risk was poor. After adjusting for socio-demographic factors, the main predictors of greater SRH knowledge were being single, having a higher level of education and sourcing information from radio. Although the vast majority of young men and women had heard about modern contraceptive methods, less than half reported knowledge of the most reliable long-acting reversible methods. Furthermore, a third of the young people interviewed had been sexually active, but 42% of them had not used contraception at the time of first sexual intercourse. With respect to knowledge and understandin…
  note: Thesis Report.
  subject:
    topic: sexual
  subject:
    topic: Reproductive
  subject:
    topic: Health Service
  subject:
    topic: Youth
  subject:
    topic: Kathmandu Valley
  classification: THS-00413
  identifier: http://nhrc.gov.np/contact/
  record info:
    record creation date: 190515
    record change date: 20220906184652.0