Survey of public healthcare providers-Reproductive care for adolescents-Mexico-2012

This study is an excerpt from a larger study called Monitoring care for women in public health sector services, carried out in Mexico during 2012; a report on this larger study (methodology including sample and a summary of results) can be found in Spanish here: https://www.insp.mx/produccion-editorial/novedades-editoriales/3102-monitoreo-mujeres.html. This cross-sectional study had a complex, probabilistic, stratified sampling design, representative at the national, regional and rural/urban level in Mexico. Questionnaires on different types of healthcare for women (maternal care, family planning, etc.) were applied to healthcare providers who worked in each type of healthcare, in 926 healthcare units. Relating to this excerpt, a questionnaire was collected from one provider each at 505 primary care units that provided sexual and reproductive healthcare to female and male adolescents. At each healthcare unit all personnel providing reproductive healthcare services to adolescents were listed and one provider was randomly selected and interviewed by a trained fieldworker using a structured questionnaire. All participants signed consent forms; the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health. Data collection spanned August to October 2012. The questionnaire collected information about: the public institution each healthcare unit was affiliated to, rural/urban location, geographic region (North, Center, South and Mexico City-Mexico State which is a geographically smaller but densely populated region of the country), demographic information for the healthcare provider responding to the questionnaire, quality of care provided and other characteristics of available infrastructure and services provided to adolescents. The file is an excerpt that contains data about the variables listed in the previous sentence, referring only to sexual and reproductive healthcare services for adolescents.