Meherali Salima, Louie-Poon Samantha, Idrees Sobia, Kauser Samar, Scott Shannon, Salami Bukola, Valliantos Helen, Meherali Kainat Moez, Patel Krishan, Suthar Puja, Akbarzada Zohra, Marcus Ivan, Khangura Manjot, Mangat Abneet
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Front Reprod Health. 2022 Jul 22;4:940979. doi: 10.3389/frph.2022.940979. eCollection 2022.
Literature suggests that immigrant adolescents receive limited sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education and rarely utilize SRH services in Canada. This study sought to explore the SRH information needs of immigrant adolescents in the province of Alberta.
A qualitative descriptive methodology was undertaken to conduct 21 individual interviews with immigrant adolescents in Alberta.
A total of four themes emerged from the interviews: (1) Barriers to SRH; (2) needs of adolescents regarding SRH; (3) sources of knowledge; and (4) strategies to improve SRH. Our findings document the conflicting needs and preferences between adolescents and their parents regarding access to SRH resources and services.
Adolescents often felt unprepared to deal with their SRH issues due to socio-cultural barriers and conflicts with their parents' conservative attitude toward SRH concerns. Structural barriers to accessing SRH resources and services were also reported, including the location and cost of services. As a result, the majority of adolescents relied on digital methods to receive SRH information.
This study highlights that future research and SRH service provider efforts need to remain cognizant of the positionality of immigrant adolescents and explore innovative ways to deliver SRH resources and services that meet their unique needs.
文献表明，在加拿大，移民青少年接受的性与生殖健康（SRH）教育有限，且很少利用SRH服务。本研究旨在探索艾伯塔省移民青少年的SRH信息需求。
采用定性描述性方法，对艾伯塔省的移民青少年进行了21次个人访谈。
访谈共产生了四个主题：（1）SRH的障碍；（2）青少年对SRH的需求；（3）知识来源；（4）改善SRH的策略。我们的研究结果记录了青少年与其父母在获取SRH资源和服务方面相互冲突的需求和偏好。
由于社会文化障碍以及与父母对SRH问题的保守态度存在冲突，青少年常常觉得没有准备好应对自己的SRH问题。还报告了获取SRH资源和服务的结构性障碍，包括服务的地点和成本。因此，大多数青少年依靠数字方法获取SRH信息。
本研究强调，未来的研究以及SRH服务提供者的工作需要始终认识到移民青少年的处境，并探索创新方法来提供满足他们独特需求的SRH资源和服务。
