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- Title
Demand for health services or professionals among adolescents: a multilevel study.
- Authors
Chaves de Lima Peixoto, Alisse Maria; Queiroz de Melo, Thaise; Amaral Ferraz, Livia Almeida; Bandeira Ferreira Santos, Carolina da Franca; de Godoy, Fabiana; de Melo Valença, Paula Andréa; Aparecida de Menezes, Valdenice; Colares, Viviane
- Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the demand for health services or professionals by adolescents with individual determinants and contextual variables (school teaching modality and Social Vulnerability Index). Data were collected from March to June 2018, in state public schools in Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil, through a structured questionnaire with questions from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and the National School Health Survey (PeNSE). Among the 2,454 adolescents, the proportion of those looking for a health service was higher among women; in adolescents whose mothers had a minimum of nine schooling years; in the physically active; and whose parents did not receive a family aid (Bolsa Família). We observed that the contextual variables did not influence the demand for health services among adolescents. In the third model of the multilevel analysis, which analyzed the individual variables, we observed that only females (OR=1,80), having a mother with schooling greater than or equal to 9 years of study (OR=1,30), not receiving Bolsa Família (OR=1,23), and physically active (OR=1,32) were associated with an increased demand for health services or professionals.
- Subjects
RECIFE (Brazil); TEENAGERS; MEDICAL personnel; PROFESSIONS; MEDICAL care; AT-risk youth; MULTILEVEL models
- Publication
Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 7, p2819
- ISSN
1413-8123
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1413-81232021267.08582021