Zdrowie rozrodcze nastolatków jako problem badawczy: uzasadnienie metodologii

Aim. To prove the medical-sociological technique of research of reproductive health of teenagers with the account of modern approaches to the understanding of health and the health-related quality of life. Method. Two ways of data selection are allocated in its frame: the analysis of factors, significant for health of teenagers from the point of view of adults; and research of factors, significant from the point of view of teenagers. Results. It was revealed that research of health of teenagers has the specificity connected with age factor. The social approach is the core from the positions of sociology of health. Quality of life connected with health can become the criterion of an estimation of state of health of children. But the basic methodological problem is the absence of a uniform questionnaire and methodology of estimation of results, which is crucial for reproductive health. The questionnaire developed by us allows to study factors of teenagers’ ways of life and life conditions, to reveal potential risk factors. The technique unites objective (physical activity, social functioning) and subjective (emotional status, teenager`s satisfaction with realization of healthrelated needs) criteria. Reproductive objectives of teenagers are investigated. We have included factors important for quality of life and reproductive health from the teenager’s point of view, and the factors which are not significantly important from the teenager’s point of view, but with real value for teenage reproductive health. The questionnaire passed preliminary test and was applied on the republican sample of teenagers.