This study is to explore perceptions, experiences, beliefs and knowledge around teenage pregnancy, motherhood, sexual and reproductive health, family planning and support structures adolescent refugees and migrants and to identify demographic, social and medical characteristics of study participants.
The study will be conducted as follows: * 12-24 individual interviews with pregnant or postnatal adolescent girls (\<20 years); * 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 non-pregnant female adolescents (\<20 years); * 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 adolescent men (\<20 years); * 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 Shoklo malaria research unit antenatal care staff; Interviews and focus group discussion will be conducted with study participants who agree to participate in discussions about teenage pregnancy and motherhood, sexual and reproductive health. In-depth interviews and focus group discussion will be conducted in private meeting rooms in proximity to the antenatal clinic waiting areas. In-depth interviews and Focus group discussion will be co-facilitated by the principal investigator and a trained counsellor/midwife fluent in Karen, Burmese and English. Focus group discussion will be run separately for Burmese- and Karen-speaking participants and participants will be separated by subgroup. Focus group discussion will include 6-10 participants per group and for each focus group discussion to last between 45-60 minutes. Individual in-depth interviews will last approximately 60 minutes each.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
54
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit
Mae Sot, Changwat Tak, Thailand
Thematic summary of adolescents' perceptions, experiences and beliefs in teenage pregnancy, motherhood, sexual and reproductive health, family planning and support structures adolescent refugees and migrants
Time frame: up to 1 year
Descriptive summary of demographic, social and medical characteristics of study participants
Time frame: up to 1 year
Summary of antenatal clinic staff perceptions
Time frame: up to 1 year
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