Nwagwu Williams E
Africa Regional Centre for Information Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
BMC Public Health. 2007 Dec 20;7:354. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-354.
There exists some research evidence regarding how adolescents utilize the Internet for health information seeking purposes. The purpose of this study is to understand how in-school and out-of-school adolescent girls in Owerri, Nigeria use online resources to meet their reproductive health information needs. The result could be considered very crucial in assessing the potential role of the Internet in providing health information to adolescent girls in a typical Nigerian urban city.
A questionnaire was used to collect data from 1011 adolescent girls in selected secondary schools in the communities, and also from 134 out-of-school girls selected from the same communities.
More than 73% of the girls reported having ever used the Internet; more than 74% and 68% of them being in-school and out-of-school respectively. The in-school girls (43.9%) reported having home access more than the out-of-school (5.6%) although the out-of-school have used the Internet for finding reproductive and related information more than the in-school. While parents (66.22%) and teachers (56.15%) are the two sources most used to the in-school girls, friends (63.18%) and the Internet (55.19%) were reported by the out-of-school youth as the two most used sources of information to them.
The Internet is not a first choice of source of reproductive health information for both the in-school and out-of-school adolescent girls in Owerri, Nigeria. The source is however, more commonly used by the out-of-school than the in-school, but the in-school have a more favorable assessment of the quality of information they obtain from the Internet.
关于青少年如何利用互联网获取健康信息，已有一些研究证据。本研究的目的是了解尼日利亚奥韦里市在校和校外的青春期女孩如何利用在线资源满足她们的生殖健康信息需求。该结果对于评估互联网在为尼日利亚典型城市的青春期女孩提供健康信息方面的潜在作用可能至关重要。
使用问卷调查从社区中选定中学的1011名青春期女孩以及从同一社区挑选的134名校外女孩收集数据。
超过73%的女孩报告曾使用过互联网；其中分别有超过74%和68%的女孩是在校和校外的。在校女孩（43.9%）报告说在家中使用互联网的比例高于校外女孩（5.6%），尽管校外女孩使用互联网查找生殖及相关信息的比例高于在校女孩。在校女孩最常使用的两个信息来源是父母（66.22%）和教师（56.15%），而校外青少年报告说朋友（63.18%）和互联网（55.19%）是他们最常使用的两个信息来源。
对于尼日利亚奥韦里市在校和校外的青春期女孩来说，互联网并非获取生殖健康信息的首选来源。然而，校外女孩比在校女孩更常使用互联网，但在校女孩对她们从互联网获取的信息质量评价更高。
