scholarly journals Exploring Perceptions of Health Needs Among Young African American Men

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arik V. Marcell ◽  
Robert J. Jagers ◽  
Bronwyn Mayden ◽  
Cynthia Mobley
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Education Economics ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
African American Young Men

Recent recommendations advocate involving young men in reproductive health programs. We know little about how young men perceive their reproductive health needs. For this study, 47 African American young men (mean age, 17.9 years) recruited from four community-based organizations completed a brief survey to explore life priorities and perceptions of health needs across 12 to 14, 15 to 19, and 20 to 25-year-olds. Participants’ life priorities varied by age group with overall top categories, including education, economics, and family members. Health was listed as a salient life priority among older participants aged 15 to 25 years, though it was not highly ranked. Participants’ top health concerns included sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS, with limited mention of other reproductive health concerns. Understanding where young men start from when thinking about reproductive health can better help us meet their needs. Future studies warrant examining how health needs change over time among a larger and more diverse sample of young men.

African American men who become mental health advocates

2021 ◽  
pp. 002076402110127
Author(s):  
Sandra Yaklin ◽  
Miyong Kim ◽  
Jacklyn Hecht
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tailored Messages ◽  
Promote Mental Health

Using a narrative approach, this study explored how African American men became mental health advocates. This ancillary study is part of a formative within an ongoing community based intervention program that was designed to promote mental health of African Americans (AMEN) project within an ongoing community based intervention program that was designed to promote mental health of African Americans (AMEN) project. Narrative research techniques were used to analyze and synthesize the data. Analysis generated one major theme (interdependence) with four supporting sub-themes (credibility, social depression, stigma, and calling). These findings and insights through this qualitative study guided the AMEN project team to formulate effective communication strategies in establishing working relationships with community partners and wider stakeholders as well as crafting culturally tailored messages for African American participants.

Addressing Obesity and Diabetes Among African American Men: Examination of a Community-Based Model of Prevention

2010 ◽  
Vol 102 (9) ◽  
pp. 794-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrie Treadwell ◽  
Kisha Holden ◽  
Richard Hubbard ◽  
Forest Harper ◽  
Fred Wright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes

Adolescent risk factors for late-onset smoking among African American young men

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene Raskin White ◽  
Nancy Violette ◽  
Lisa Metzger ◽  
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
African American ◽  
Late Onset ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Adolescent Risk ◽  
African American Young Men

scholarly journals Mothers' Knowledge about the Reproductive Health Needs of their Adolescent Girls

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
B Zaman ◽  
RM Shampa ◽  
MA Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Safe Motherhood ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Adolescent Reproductive Health

Introduction: Adolescent is an important segment of life while a child undergoes biological transformation.Objective: The study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge of mothers about reproductive health needs of their adolescent girls. Methods: This descriptive cross sectional study was conducted on the mothers having adolescent girls. Data was collected by face to face interview with a semi structured questionnaire and analyzed with SPSS. The knowledge of mothers was assessed by Likert scale.Place of study: The study was conducted at 5 schools of Dhaka city on 118 respondents over a period of four months.Results: It was revealed from the findings that among 118 mothers the mean age of respondents were 40.71 years with standard deviation ± 3.707 years. Majority (70%) of respondents were undergraduate qualified and rest were post graduats. Among the respondents, 64% of mothers did not want to provide information on reproductive health to their daughters. Seventy two percent of the respondents had average knowledge about puberty. Among the respondents, 47% had average knowledge regarding adolescent reproductive health problems and 77% of respondents had average knowledge about safe motherhood. Regarding the complication of unsafe abortion, 73% had average knowledge and 70% had average knowledge about consequence of early pregnancy. Fifty seven percent of the respondents had good knowledge about Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Sixty one percent of the respondents had good knowledge regarding the high risk behaviour of the adolescents. Significant statistical association was found between knowledge and education, knowledge and occupation, and knowledge and source of information of reproductive health (p<0.05).Conclusion: The study findings may be helpful for baseline information and would be beneficial to the policymakers and programme planners to sophisticate further strategy to increase mothers' knowledge about the reproductive health needs of their adolescent girls.Key words: Knowledge; adolescent; reproductive health needs DOI: 10.3329/jafmc.v6i2.7266JAFMC Bangladesh. Vol 6, No 2 (December) 2010 pp.9-12

scholarly journals Prevalence of Reproductive Tract Infections/Sexually Transmitted Infections among Rural Married Women – A Community Based Study Using Syndromic Approach

Healthline ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Anita Punia ◽  
Jyoti Yadav ◽  
Babita ◽  
Sanjay Kumar Jha ◽  
Sanjeet Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Reproductive Tract ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Tract Infections ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Syndromic Approach ◽  
Tract Infections

Introduction: Reproductive Tract Infections (RTIs) and Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to be a major public health problem and affecting women's health. Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of RTIs/STIs among married women aged 18-49 years in rural areas and to determine the factors associated with these conditions. Method: A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out among 308 eligible married women aged 18-49 years in rural areas in District Sonipat, Haryana using the WHO-Syndromic Approach for diagnosis of RTIs/STIs. Results: The mean age of study subjects in our study was 32.1 years (SD = ± 8.3 years) with a range from 18 to 49 years. The overall RTIs/STIs prevalence was 49.3%. The most frequent symptom was vaginal discharge (55.3%) followed by pain during micturition (34.2%), dyspareunia (26.9%), pain lower abdomen (24.3%) and vulval itching (16.4%). RTI/STI symptoms were found significantly more among women who had history of any chronic disease, who had irregular menstrual cycles, used cloths as sanitary pads and among those whose husbands were substance users. Conclusions: This study revealed a high prevalence (49.3%) of RTIs/STIs. Awareness about symptoms of RTIs, menstrual and personnel hygiene, raising literacy level of women, drive against use of addictive substances etc. by husbands is needed for control and prevention of RTIs. Primary health care services in respect of reproductive health should be strengthened and raising awareness among women about reproductive health issues through suitable communication strategies in order to bring about a positive behavior change for effective control of STIs.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a community-based sexual health intervention for young adult Latino and African-American men

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Kalmuss ◽  
Bruce Armstrong ◽  
Molly Franks ◽  
Gabrielle Hecker ◽  
Jessica Gonzalez
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
Community Based

Recruitment of African American Men Into a Community-Based Exercise Training Trial: The ARTIIS Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Hendrick ◽  
Blake Esch ◽  
Melissa Harris ◽  
Timothy Church ◽  
Robert Newton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Exercise Training ◽  
Training Trial ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Community Based

scholarly journals Reproductive health needs of recently incarcerated youth during community reentry: a systematic review

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-171
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Barnert ◽  
Ava Sun ◽  
Laura Abrams ◽  
Paul J Chung
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Intervention Studies ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Incarcerated Youth ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Community Reentry ◽  
Sexually Transmitted

BackgroundYouth involved in the juvenile justice system have high reproductive health needs and, on exiting detention, face the challenging transition of reentry. We conducted a systematic literature review to describe what is known about youths’ reproductive health needs during community reentry after incarceration.MethodsWe searched PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar for articles containing key words with the concepts ‘child or adolescent’, ‘incarcerated’ and 'reentry'. In the search, we defined the concept of ‘reentry’ as within 1 month prior to release (to include interventions involving pre-release planning) and up to 18 months after release from incarceration.ResultsOur search yielded 2187 articles. After applying all exclusion criteria, 14 articles on reproductive health remained for extraction. The articles provided data on the following aspects of youths’ reproductive health: frequency of condom use (eight articles), sexual risk behaviours other than lack of condom use (seven articles), and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (three articles).ConclusionsThe literature on the reproductive health needs of youth undergoing reentry is extremely limited. Current intervention studies yield mixed but promising results and more intervention studies that address both pre-release reentry planning and the post-incarceration period are needed. Given incarcerated youths’ well-documented reproductive health disparities compared with non-incarcerated adolescents, the identified gaps represent important opportunities for future research and programmatic emphasis.

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