DOI: 10.5061/dryad.cc2fqz64p
title: Assessing the choice of sources of information on sexual and reproductive health issues among adolescents

description: Background: Access to the right information from credible sources on
 sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues is germane to smooth and
 healthy transition from childhood to adulthood among adolescents with or
 without disabilities. Despite the large amount of research focused on
 adolescents aged 15-19 years, adolescents with disabilities, particularly
 those with visual impairment have received little attention. This study
 aims to assess the sources of information on SRH issues among adolescents
 with visually impairment (AVI) and adolescents without visual impairments
 (AWVI). Methods: A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 394
 AVI and AWVI in-school adolescents aged 15-19 years from two government
 boarding schools in Owo local government area of Ondo state, Nigeria.
 Quantitative Data were collected using the Open Data Kit (ODK). Data
 analyses were done using descriptive and Binary Logistics regression.
 Results: The available sources  of information on SRH issues
 among in-school adolescents include school teachers, parents, siblings and
 other family members among others. Of all the available sources of
 information, the most important and the most preferred sources of
 information were school teachers, parents, siblings and other family
 members. However, the AVI preferred to receive more information on puberty
 and Sexual and Reproductive (SR) system from their most important sources
 (school teachers and parents); while the AWVI preferred getting more
 information on puberty from parents and more information on SR system from
 school teachers. While most of the AVI preferred to receive more
 information on boy/girlfriend relationship from school teachers and
 parents, majority of the AWVI preferred to receive more of such
 information from their parents. Significant difference exists only in the
 most preferred source of information on boy/girlfriend relationship
 between the AVI and AWVI (p&lt;0.05). Furthermore, results from the
 binary Logistics regression showed that,  AWVI were significantly
 less likely to have received information on SRH issues from their
 preferred sources than their AVI counterparts (OR:0.460; CI:0.273-0.777).
 Female adolescents were significantly more likely to have received
 information from their preferred sources than their male counterparts
 (OR:1.592; CI:1.016-2.496). Also, adolescents having mothers aged 40-49
 were more than twice as likely as those whose mothers were younger to have
 received information from their preferred sources (OR:2.220;
 CI:1.150-4.286). Conclusion: Making information on SRH issues available
 and accessible to adolescents generally and those with visual impairment
 in particular in formats that take their disabilities into account, will
 go a long way to ensuring their smooth and healthy transition to
 adulthood.
description: The data was collected using Open Data Kit (ODK) among in-school
 adolescents, aged 15-19. Data were colected from two schools - school for
 students with visual impairment and school for students without visual
 impairment.  Data cleaning has been done, but the data
 has not been altered from the original form
description: Although the manuscript developed from the dataset made use of
 information for adolescents aged 15-19, the data contains information for
 adolescents (especially for those with visual impairment) above age
 19. The data is not from a clinical trial, but from
 interviews from in-school adolescents in government boarding schools in a
 state in Nigeria