Reproductive health communication between mother and adolescent daughter in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Parent-adolescent reproductive health (RH) communication is one of the potential sources of information for adolescents on the topic. Given that female adolescents in Bangladesh are faced with increasing RH-related risks, it is important to understand how parents communicate about RH to their adolescents from the adolescents' perspectives. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore the status of mother-adolescent daughter communication on reproductive health in Bangladesh. METHODS: A cross-sectional study targeting female students was conducted in five high schools in Chittagong based on a self-administered questionnaire survey. A description method was used to describe the characteristics of mother-adolescent daughters' communication on RH including the frequency, type and the quantity of topics. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were…