Abstract
Background: Adolescence is a period of high developmental
changes in physical, mental and social conditions. In this period the
adolescent
youth fails to control their emotions, listen to parents’ advice and
begins to indulge them in unhealthy behavioral activities. In general,
the age
group from 10 to 19 years is classified as adolescent. Many adolescents
often lack strong and stable relationships with their parents to openly
discuss about reproductive health concerns. Similarly, about 55.7% of
the secondary and preparatory school students were not discussed on
SRH issues.
Objective: To assess the barriers of discussion among adolescents concerning sexual and reproductive health issues among Preparatory
Schools students of Hawassa City, SNNPR, Ethiopia.
Methods: - Descriptive cross sectional survey design was
conducted among Addis Ketema and Tabor preparatory schools students in
Hawassa City, from December to June 2016. Then a multistage sampling
technique was employed to select 344 eligible study participants, the
data were collected by using closed ended questionnaire and analyzed.
Result: - The majority (61%) of respondents did not discused
sexual matters with their parents. The results of binary logistic
regression
revealed that, the adolescents who follow social media (B=1.497, p<
0.05), use condom (B=2.296, p< 0.05), father education (B=2.398,
p< 0.05)
and mother education (B=1.582, p< 0.05) have positive and significant
effect on discussion between the parents and adolescents on SRH issues.
Culture of adolescents and parents regarding sex related issues whereas,
ever had experienced sexual pleasure (B=-1.466, p< 0.01), amount
of money the adolescent got monthly (B= -2.127, p< 0.01), talk to
friend about sex related issues(B=-2.361, p< 0.01), and feel shame to
talk
to family about sex related issues (B=-0.868, p< 0.05) have negative
and significant effect on discussion between the adolescents and parents
regarding sex related issues.
Conclusion: The major factors that hindered parent-adolescent
discussion were ever had experienced sexual pleasure, follow social
media,
use condom, parent education, amount of money given to adolescents, talk
to friends about sex related issue, and feel shame. Furthermore,
parents had limited access to sexuality information which could
perpetuate beliefs, taboos and negative attitudes that hindered them
from
discussing sexual matters with adolescents.
Barriers of Discussion #Concerning Sexual and #Reproductive Health Issues Among #Adolescents and Parents, Hawassa, SNNPR, Ethiopia by Sailaja Busi in BJSTR
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