تبيين نيازهاي آموزشي و چگونگي ارائه خدمات آموزشي مرتبط با سلامت دختران نوجوان: يك مطالعه كيفي

Female Adolescents Health-Information Needs: A Qualitative Study

Background and purpose: Although much has been written about the health status of adolescents, little qualitative research has been published on educational health needs of female adolescents. The purpose of this study was to describe the educational health needs of female adolescents. Materials and methods: In this qualitative study, 67 female adolescents between 12-18 years of age and 11 key informants participated expressed their experiences on educational health needs of female adolescents, using semi structured interviews. Participants were recruited based on purposeful sampling and with maximum variety from rural and urban area of Sari city. All tape-recorded data was fully transcribed and thematic analysis was done. Results: The findings of this research on the adolescentsʹ health-information needs emphasized on two overarching themes including adjusting education according to the needs (includes two subcategories: preferred content and method of delivery) and public participation in education (includes two subcategories: promotion of mass media performance and social networks participation in education). Each category consisted of some subcategories which were explained with experiences of participants. Conclusion: The results show that promotion of female adolescentsʹ knowledge on reproductive health and life skills are the most important health-information needs.