Mbah, Kanayochukwu Michael, Kpuduwei, Selekeowei Peter Kespi, Khaleel, Olafisoye, Ozori, Ebiogbo Stanley, Ikoro, Chima, Atemie, Gordon & Ariwelo Solomon Warisuo·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2025
Background: Adolescents in Nigeria face high sexual and reproductive health risks, with early sexual debut, unintended pregnancy, and STIs prevalent. Parent–adolescent communication is very important to adolescents because it has the potential of mitigating sexual and reproductiv...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2025/v23i91293
Mbah, Kanayochukwu Michael, Kpuduwei, Selekeowei Peter Kespi, Khaleel, Olafisoye, Ozori, Ebiogbo Stanley, Ikoro, Chima, Atemie, Gordon & Ariwelo Solomon Warisuo·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2025
Background: Parent-adolescent communication on reproductive health is vital for shaping adolescents’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours. In Nigeria, especially in Bayelsa State, disparities in urban and rural settings affect the quality and openness of such communication, influ...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2025/v23i91292
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world and left significant effects on lives, health, economy and society. Existing records point to how previous pandemics significantly impacted adolescent sexual and reproductive health. This study examined the effects of COVID-...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2024/v22i71057
Edwin Akomaning, Edem Kojo Dzantor, Etornam Abla Tettey, Francisca Abangbila, Adam Mohammed, Appau-Duah Eunice & Asante Emmanuela Dapomaa·Asian Journal of Medicine and Health·2022
Unwanted pregnancies account for roughly 30% of all pregnancies in Ghana. Availability of contraceptives and usage is essential to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 3.7 which calls for universal access to contraception for use by people of all ages by 203...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i530461
Background: The case of sexual behavior in adolescents is increasingly worrisome because teenage sexual behavior is now exceeding the limits and quite alarming. This is supported by research an increasing pattern in adolescent pregnancy in sub-Sahara Africa. Methods: An interview...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i1030377
Introduction: Adolescents and youths are at high risk due to knowledge gap and behaviour risks related to HIV/AIDS thus need for intervention programs. There is paucity of data on comparative analysis on effect of the education intervention models such as peer-based and provider-...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i1130273
Adolescent health risk behaviors are becoming a serious health care as adolescents engage in health-compromising behaviors at a high frequency in several crucial domains. One domain involves tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use. This is a cross section study covered 405 adolesc...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i530206
Background: Disclosure of HIV status to children is essential for disease management. Studies on disclosure in children have largely described it from the health provider’s perspective or caregiver’s perspective. Caregivers’ and children’s reports about children’s feelings and di...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i130176
Adolescents form a significant portion of the population whose health must be safeguarded in order to ensure a future healthy population. Adolescent sexual development comprises a variety of physical, biological, social and psychological changes which give rise to a mature adult...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2016/29439
Hacène Frih, Aziez Chettoum, Kamilia Guedri, Nabila Frih, Bachir Rachedi, Rédha Djenidi & Sylvain Fisson·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2014
Aims: The aim of our study was to investigate the causal relationship between smoking and mood disorders (depression, anxiety) and to determine the class at high risk (to developing depression and/or anxiety) depending on age (begin smoking at adulthood (Adt: [23-32] years), chil...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2014/8040