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    Assessment of Factors Affecting Parents in Discussing Reproductive Health Issue with their Adolescent in Shambo town, Horo Guduru Wollega, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia, May 2009
    (Addis Ababa University, 2009-07) Assebe, Tesfaye; Gebrekidan, Berhane (Assistant Professor)
    Background: - even though sexual activity put adolescents at risk of various reproductive health (RH) challenges, many adolescent lack strong stable relation ships with parents or other adults with whom they talk to get information about their RH concern. Objectives: - The general objective of the study is to identify factors affecting parents in discussing reproductive health issues with their adolescent. Method: - Community based cross-sectional study was designed to determine factors affecting parents in discussing RH issue with their adolescents among families who had children aged 10 years and above living in Shambo town conducted in May 2009. A total of 262 house holds were selected using systematic sampling technique. Data was collected using structured questionnaire by six data collectors from resident of Shamboo town. Data was analyzed by SPSS soft ware version 15.0. Descriptive statistics was employed to describe the study population in relation to relevant variables. Odds ratio with 95% confidence intervals and regression was employed to describe the strength of association between the selected study variables by controlling for the effect of possible confounders Result and discussion: - The study showed that most respondent 84.6% were found to be knowledgeable about reproductive health and also the majority 90% had positive attitude towards discussing the RH issue with their adolescent. However, small proportions 38.2% have communicated to their adolescent on reproductive health issue. Educational level, knowledge, and attitude of parents had significant association with discussion of parents with their adolescents on RH issues. Conclusion and recommendation: - It can be concluded that, even though parents had basic information on RH, they did not practice in discussing RH issue with their adolescent. It is recommended that health workers in helping parents to become effective communicator to their adolescent as well as considering their role of educator should be considered