Individual and Family Factors on Adolescents’ Engagement in Risky Sexual Behavior among High School Students in, Addis Ketema Sub City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2013-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background :Adolescents undergo a period of development when biological, physical, cognitive, and social traits mature from childhood to adulthood. Many important life events and health-damaging behaviors start during the youth years. As a result, adolescence is a time of both risk and opportunity.
Objective :The objective of this study is to assess, the role, individual and familial factors have on adolescent’s engagement in risky sexual variable among high school adolescents in Addis Ketema sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Methodology :A cross-sectional study was conducted; comprising quantitative method of data collection, on 412 high- school adolescents with ages from 15-18 years.
Sampling proportional to size technique was used to select the study units from a total of 10,194 regular students enrolled in 4 private and 4 governmental secondary and preparatory schools. A pretested, structured self administered questionnaire was used to collect the data in Feb. 2013.
Result The response rate for this study was 99%. From the total of 412, 83 (20.1%) of the respondents already had history of sexual intercourse with mean age of sexual debut 16.48 ± SD 0.91year.Among sexually experianced, 52(62.7%) reported havong sexual intercourse with 2 to more than 4 persons in their lifetime, earning pocket money, relegious service attendance, substance use, peer influence and parental monitoring, were some of the factors significantly associated with adolescents risky sexual behaviour.
Dicussion and conclusion :The result of this study shows, adolescent risky sexual behaviour cannot only be decided by the individual‘s lifestyle rather it’s influenced by multiple social and familial characteristic. Addressing determinants of adolescent risky sexual behaviour is the key step which provide for interventions aiming to solve adolescent risky sexual behaviour problems, the findings of this study, thus, can serve as an asset for programmers aiming to address adolescent’s sexual health.
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Sexual behavior ,Adolescents’ ,Students