Youth Friendly Health Service Utilization and Associated Factors Among Preparatory School Students in Gondar City, Northwest, Ethiopia, 2020

Abstract

Abstract Background: Youth are often considered the healthiest stages of life, even if they are at critical periods in which young people are challenged with a unique set of threats to their health and survival such as unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortion, sexually transmitted infection including HIV. Limited access and utilization of YFHS play a role to high mortality and morbidity due to health-related complications. Objective: To assess youth friendly health services utilization and associated factors among preparatory school students in Gondar city, northwest Ethiopia, 2020. Methods: A school based cross-sectional study was conducted on students aged from 15-24 years who were available during the study period, supplemented with qualitative approach from February 01 to March 01, 2020. Simple random stratified sampling technique was used. Epi-data version 4.6.0.0 was used for data entry and exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Descriptive statistics was used to describe variables, Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression models were used to assess association between independent and dependent variables. Adjusted odds ratio with 95% CI was used to declare variables statistically significant. The qualitative data was transcribed verbatim, typed in word, and translated back to English by the investigator. Result: From the total respondents, 235