Sexual behaviors and its association with life skills among school adolescents of Mettu town, South West Ethiopia: A school-based cross-sectional study

Background: Adolescents need to have adequate life skills along with personal and social competencies to build responsible adults for healthy behavior. Works of literature agree that life skills improve adolescent’s cognitive, social, and emotional skills; however, there is a paucity of evidence on...

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Published in:	SAGE Open Medicine
Main Authors:	Desalew Tesema, Meseret Tamirat, Afework Tadele
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SAGE Publishing 2020-07-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312120940545

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