He is the one who is providing you with everything so whatever he says is what you do: A qualitative study on factors affecting secondary schoolgirls' dropout in Rural Western Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Oruko, Kelvin ^a   Nyothach, Elizabeth ^a   Zielinski Gutierrez, Emily ^b   Mason, Linda ^c   Alexander, Kelly ^c   Vulule, John ^a   Laserson, Kayla F ^b   Phillips Howard, Penelope A ^a,c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; KENYA; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL AREA; STUDENT ATTITUDE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL DROPOUT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENT DROPOUTS;

EID: 84955566163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144321     Document Type: Article

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