Erulkar Annabel S, Onoka Charles J, Phiri Alford
Population Council, Accra, Ghana.
Afr J Reprod Health. 2005 Dec;9(3):51-8.
While there has been increased attention to youth-friendly reproductive health services, little research has been conducted among adolescents in developing countries to assess what characteristics of reproductive health services are most important to them. Large scale population-based surveys were carried out among youth in Kenya and Zimbabwe. A list of characteristics that programmers often think of as youth-friendly was read to respondents, after which they were asked to assess the importance of those characteristics in choosing their reproductive health services. Adolescents rated confidentiality, short waiting time, low cost and friendly staff as the most important characteristics. The least important characteristics included youth-only service, youth involvement and young staff, suggesting that adolescents do not prioritise stand-alone youth services such as youth centres, or necessarily need arrangements particular to youth such as youth involvement. The findings imply that most existing clinical services, even in the most resource-poor settings, are in a position to improve their level of youth friendliness.
尽管对青少年友好的生殖健康服务已受到更多关注，但在发展中国家的青少年中，很少有研究评估生殖健康服务的哪些特征对他们最为重要。在肯尼亚和津巴布韦的青年中开展了大规模的基于人群的调查。向受访者宣读了一份程序员通常认为对青少年友好的特征清单，然后要求他们评估这些特征在选择生殖健康服务时的重要性。青少年将保密性、等待时间短、低成本和工作人员友好评为最重要的特征。最不重要的特征包括仅面向青少年的服务、青少年参与和年轻工作人员，这表明青少年并不将诸如青少年中心之类的独立青少年服务列为优先事项，也不一定需要诸如青少年参与之类的专门针对青少年的安排。研究结果表明，即使在资源最匮乏的环境中，大多数现有的临床服务也有能力提高其对青少年的友好程度。
