Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
In India there are about 242 million adolescents accounting for 22% of its population
Educational intervention in the form of interactive sessions had a positive effect on the knowledge and perception of adolescents regarding nutrition, reproductive health and hygiene, body image, bad touch, addiction and psychological problems
A recent study from Varanasi concluded that knowledge of school-going adolescents was weak about pubertal changes and reproductive health issues and that adolescents studying in Hindi medium schools require a more formal health and sex education programme in the school curriculum as compared to adolescents studying in English medium schools[7]
Summary
In India there are about 242 million adolescents accounting for 22% of its population. Health challenges for adolescents include pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, reproductive tract infections, under-nutrition, anaemia, substance abuse and injuries[4]. To overcome these challenges, the Indian Government included Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health as a key technical strategy under the National Reproductive and Child Health II programme[4]. In developing countries, including India, many studies suggest that adolescents have misconceptions about reproductive health and pubertal changes because they do not have access to correct information and proper health education[5]. A few studies from developing countries found that sexual reproductive health knowledge of the school-going rural adolescents was fair and few misconceptions existed but after the adolescent health education interventional programme it was seen that the adolescents in the urban area obtained higher scores on adolescent reproductive health knowledge than those in the rural area[8,9]
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