Viengnakhone Vongxay|Femke Albers|Souksamone Thongmixay|Maliphone Thongsombath|Jacqueline E. W. Broerse|Vanphanom Sychareun|Dirk Essink
Sexual and reproductive health literacy of school adolescents in Lao PDR
University of Health Sciences Vientiane|Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|University of Health Sciences Vientiane|Public Health Department|Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|University of Health Sciences Vientiane|Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
rationale adolescent pregnancy lao pdr highest southeast asia leads negative health social consequences young people anticipated problem partly caused limited sexual reproductive health literacy srhl leading poor sexual reproductive health srh decisions based concept health literacy srhl goes beyond knowledge behavior selfperceived ability individual access needed information understand information appraise apply information informed decision making good way contribute sexual reproductive health knowing knowledge behavior process individuals thought srh problem taking action aim study measure srhl among schoolgoing adolescents aged 1519 determine factors associated srhl method conducted crosssectional study rural urban areas lao pdr 2017 respondents completed selfadministered questionnaire five parts sociodemographic personal health srh knowledge behavior srhl functional literacy calculated srhl score based hleu index used descriptive statistics determine score levels used bivariate statistics multiple linear regression identify factors associated srhl adolescents result among 461 respondents 655 inadequate srhl scores positively significantly associated several factors including school location 3218 p0001 knowledge srh attending sr class school p0010p0001 functional literacy condoms reflected respondents understood use condoms 0871 p0001 conclusion school adolescents inadequate srhl comprehensive sexual education enabling information well service access adolescents essential ensure adolescents access understand appraise apply good srh knowledge decisionmaking benefit health