Table 2 Students’ views regarding youth-friendly services, Assiut University, Egypt
From: Views and attitudes of university students in Upper Egypt towards youth health centers
Variable | Frequency (N = 305) | Percent |
|---|---|---|
Site preferred for establishing a youth health facility | ||
On campus | 188 | 61.6 |
Off campus | 78 | 25.6 |
No preference | 39 | 12.8 |
On-campus preference causes (N = 188)# | ||
Easy accessibility | 120 | 63.8 |
More efficient | 28 | 14.9 |
Serve larger number of youth | 26 | 13.8 |
Low cost of services | 8 | 4.3 |
Presence of supervision from university authority | 7 | 3.7 |
Safer | 3 | 1.6 |
Others | 5 | 2.7 |
Off-campus preference causes (N = 78)# | ||
Availability to all youth | 44 | 56.5 |
Privacy | 20 | 25.6 |
Campus not suitable for these services | 5 | 6.4 |
Better quality of services | 5 | 6.4 |
Don’t know | 4 | 5.1 |
Both on- and off-campus preference causes (N = 39)# | ||
Serve youth inside and outside campus | 34 | 87.2 |
No differences | 5 | 12.8 |
Students’ opinions about providing youth health services either as stand-alone or integrated | ||
Stand alone | 239 | 78.4 |
Integrated with other services | 66 | 21.6 |
Students expectations about health provider at youth health facility | ||
Young provider of the same sex | 111 | 36.4 |
Young provider of either sex | 18 | 5.9 |
Older provider of the same sex | 97 | 31.8 |
Older provider of either sex | 30 | 9.8 |
Age and sex do not matter | 49 | 16.1 |