<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="Research Article" dtd-version="1.0"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">iarjhcp</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pubmed">IARJHCP</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IARJHCP</journal-id><issn>2789-6048</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjhcp.2023.v03i01.012</article-id><title-group><article-title>Assessment of Factors Affecting Mental Health and Kap of Reproductive and Sexual Health Practices Among Adolescent Boys in Kalaburagi</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>DayalaxmiT</given-names><surname>Shedole</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Mohin</given-names><surname>Sakre</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><given-names>Panchasheela</given-names><surname>SR</surname></name></contrib></contrib-group><aff-id id="aff-a" /><abstract>Introduction: Potentially harmful subjects – tobacco, alcohol and other drugs are now more readily available to adolescents and threaten their health in short and long term. Suicide attempts also appear to be on the rise among the adolescents4. This study aims at bringing out the Mental health concerns and the KAP regarding reproductive and sexual health among Muslim adolescent boys of Khaja Bazaar area of Kalaburagi in relation to health, disease, social, psychological, economical, sexual and other problems. Methodology: The study was carried out on health status of 260 Muslim adolescent boys who were selected by employing simple random sampling from the entire target population on the basis of the percentage of adolescents in the country i.e., 20.9%7. A pre designed, pre tested questionnaire was used to collect the information. The questionnaire consisted a consortium of relevant SDQs borrowed from trusted sources like WHO, NIMHANS etc regarding mental health, reproductive health and sexual health practices. Results: Among the individuals who were Underweight, 58.14% were Mentally Unhealthy, giving the Highest prevalence in the comparison, followed by Obese individuals (57.14%) and Overweight individuals (52.0%). Children of Widows had the highest prevalence of Mentally Unhealthy individuals (50.0%) followed by the children of parents who were in their first marriages (36.28%) and children of Divorcees (35.29%). The Lower Class had the highest number of individuals who were Mentally Unhealthy (65.0%) followed by Lower Middle Class (58.06%).</abstract></article-meta></front><body /><back /></article>