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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The perceptions of adolescents on the use of HIV youth friendly centre in Maseru, Lesotho

Lekhotsa, Thabiso Alphonce 11 1900 (has links)
This qualitative exploratory study explored adolescents’ perceptions of the HIV youth friendly centre at a hospital in Lesotho in order to improve adolescent-friendly health care services in Lesotho. Data was obtained through interviewing nine purposively selected adolescents aged 18–19 years who accessed health care services at the centre, and was analysed using an adapted version of Colaizzi’s seven-step thematic analysis. Six themes emerged from this study: attributes experienced during adolescents’ visits to health care facilities, adolescents’ perceptions of the health care facility, waiting times, facts related to HIV pre-test counselling, description of services available for adolescents’ health, and challenges faced by adolescents in relation to their HIV positive status. The adolescents explained the factors that encouraged them to be tested, and to commit to HIV management and treatment. The findings showed that it is important to reserve a dedicated space for adolescents, to provide comprehensive health services at one site, to ensure adolescents’ privacy and confidentiality, to indicate patient flow clearly, to indicate the service offering clearly, to offer flexible operating hours and days, to involve youth in the service provision, to keep queues short, and to establish peer support groups. / Health Studies / M.A. (Public Health)

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