The phrase "adolescent entrants" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to young individuals who are entering a particular field, program, or stage in life, such as education or employment.
Example: "The program is designed to support adolescent entrants as they transition into high school."
Alternatives: "young newcomers" or "teenage participants".
The low-experience and high-experience cohorts had 113 (16.0%) and 442 (32.5%) adolescent entrants, respectively (Table 1).
Of the 2066 respondents covered in the survey, 555 (26.9%) were adolescent entrants and 1511 (73.1%) were adult entrants.
Adolescent entrants were more likely to experience sexual debut at an early age, exhibit high-risk sexual behavior, and exhibit higher STI and HIV prevalence than adult entrants.
The duration of employment in the trucking industry also exhibits significant association with higher STI and HIV prevalence, especially among the adolescent entrants.
Compared with adult entrants, a significantly lower proportion of adolescent entrants were currently married (75.7% versus 68.5%, respectively; P = 0.01) and owned a truck (16.9% versus 7.1%, respectively; P = 0.01).
Drivers who entered the industry before 18 complete years of age were termed adolescent entrants, while those who entered the industry at 18 complete years of age or older were termed adult entrants.
15– 19 This evidence suggests that sexual debut at an early age may be one of the critical factors behind the differential in high-risk sexual behavior between adolescent and adult entrants in the low-experience cohort.
However, no significant differences were found in STI and HIV prevalence between the adolescent and the adult entrants in this cohort.
The differential in sexual behavior between the adolescent and the adult entrants was particularly substantial in the low-experience cohort, whereas the differential in STI and HIV prevalence between the adolescent and the adult entrants could reach statistical significance in the high-experience cohort.
20 Cross-tabulations were used to examine the differences in background characteristics, sexual behavior, and STI and HIV prevalence between the adolescent and the adult entrants and between the low-experience and the high-experience cohorts.
There are also reports that the streets of Nigeria are being inundated daily with hordes of different categories of neglected children and adolescents [ 24, 25] who are potential entrants into the juvenile justice system.
