Psychosocial Health of Adolescent living in Urban Slum Nigeria

Autor:	Olujide A Adekeye, Emmanuel O. Amoo, Adenike E. Idowu, Idowu I. Chiazor
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Cross-sectional study Public health social sciences General Medicine Adolescent age Geography Environmental health Urbanization Scale (social sciences) medicine population characteristics Socioeconomics Psychosocial Slum Performance rating
Zdroj:	Review of Economics and Development Studies. 1:1-10
ISSN:	2519-9706 2519-9692
DOI:	10.26710/reads.v1i1.111
Popis:	The paper examines association of neighborhood characteristics with psychosocial statues of adolescent living in urban slums. Data for the study were obtained from a cross sectional survey among adolescent age 15-19, living in urban slums in Lagos State. Adopted a measuring scale for adverse environment and psychosocial attributes, data were analyzed using univariate and binary logistic regression analysis. Results revealed that neighborhood characteristics were associated with low self-academic performance rating. Both parental process and neighborhood factors such social disorganization was able to predict psychosocial wellbeing such subjective academic performance rating. The findings revealed among others that adverse neighborhood characteristics in urban slum were associated with unhealthy subjective wellbeing which reflects wide personal and social contexts and have implications for public health and social wellbeing. This paper calls for programmes that are tailor to addressing rapidly developing slum settlements in low income area, to secure the future generation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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