Abstract
Premarital Sexual Practice and Risky Sexual Behaviors Associated with it among Secondary School Adolescents, South East Ethiopia: A Mixed Design Study
Highlights
BackgroundThe World Health Organization (WHO) defines adolescents as those between the ages of 10 to 19 years [1]
To control confounders and identify the actual factors that are associated with premarital sexual practice variables that had association on univariate binary logistic regression were selected and entered to multivariable binary logistic regression and the result showed that sex, alcohol consumption, pocket money, watching sexual movies and having boy/girl friend are strongly associated with premarital sexual practice
In conclusion this study has found that one fifth of students were engaged in premarital sex; male gender, alcohol consumption, having pocket money, watching pornographic movies has significant association with it
Summary
BackgroundThe World Health Organization (WHO) defines adolescents as those between the ages of 10 to 19 years [1]. Adolescence is the journey of transition from childhood to adulthood and it is the time of physical, mental, emotional, social and psychosexual development [2]. According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, youths aged 15–24 years were more than 15.2 million which contributes to 20.6% of the whole population. These very large and productive groups of the population are frequently exposed to various forms of sexual and reproductive health risks including, sexual coercion, early marriage or sexual debut, female genital cutting, unplanned pregnancies, closely spaced pregnancies, abortion, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), and HIV/AIDS [5]. Adolescence is the journey of transition from childhood to adulthood at which mental, emotional, social and psychosexual development occurs. The main aim of this study was to assess premarital sexual practices and sexual and reproductive health risks associated with it among secondary school adolescents
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