Assessment of Adolescents Knowledge of Sexuality Education, Menstrual Hygiene and Utilization of Youth Friendly Services in Ondo State
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Adolescents face heightened risks related to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) due to early sexual debut, limited knowledge, stigma, and poor access to youth-friendly health services (YFHS). This cross-sectional study assessed awareness, knowledge, and utilization of SRH services among secondary school students in Ondo State, Nigeria. A total of 221 students from four schools—Babcock University High School (BUHS), Wexford College, CAC Grammar School, and Impact High School—were surveyed using a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and regression analysis. Findings indicate that awareness of sexuality education (34%) and drug abuse (35%) were low, awareness of youth-friendly services was considerably lower at 4% in some schools. Utilization of youth-friendly clinics was also minimal. Misconceptions about HIV transmission persisted, including beliefs about casual contact. The findings underscore significant gaps between awareness and service utilization, highlighting structural, sociocultural, and stigma-related barriers. The study recommends intensified awareness creation, improved methods of implementation rather than just integration of SRH education into school curricula, and improved availability of adolescent-friendly health services.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".