Adolescent-parent communication on sexual and reproductive health issues and associated factors among secondary school students in Woreta town, Northwest Ethiopia: An institutional based cross sectional study

Wudineh, Kihinetu Gelaye; Alemnew, Fentahun; Tesfu, Azimeraw Arega

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06528

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“…This was due to lack of confidence on the part of the adolescent to bring up such conversations. Similar observations were made in studies in SSA; Ethiopia (Bekele et al, 2022;Wudineh et al, 2021), and rural Tanzania (Wamoyi et al, 2010), and reflects the traditional norms in Africa which tend to prevent adolescents from engaging in such conversations perceived to be meant for adults, and branding adolescents who tend to show interest in these conversations as lacking good moral values or not properly brought up by their parents.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…This finding is consistent with observations from studies in Ghana (Klu et al, 2022) and Uganda (Ayalew et al, 2014;Muhwezi et al, 2015) where adolescents often relied on mothers rather than fathers for SRH information. The reason for this, as has been extensively reported in literature (Ayalew et al, 2014;Klu et al, 2022;Usonwu et al, 2021;Wudineh et al, 2021), was that most participants in the current study perceived their male parents to be authoritative and insensitive to the needs and plights of the adolescent girl. While it is important to encourage mother-child communications on SRH, the lack of fathers' involvement in SRH discussions could mean that male parents do not support such communications, especially in a setting like the East Gonja Municipality where there are still significant socio-cultural norms prohibiting open discussions on SRH with children.…”

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confidence: 59%

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Parent-Adolescent Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health: Perceptions and Experiences of Out-Of-School Adolescent Mothers in the East Gonja Municipality, Ghana

Nketia¹

2022

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Social institutions such as family have an important role to play in shaping adolescent sexual behaviour, and parents remain central to this responsibility. Available evidence suggests that adolescent girls who are engaged in a healthy parent-child communications on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) (e.g. sex, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) prevention) at an early age are more likely to learn or adopt safe sexual behaviors. This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of out-of-school adolescent mothers on parent-child SRH communications. Sixty-four (64) participants were recruited from the antenatal care (ANC) unit of the East Gonja Municipal Hospital in Salaga, Ghana, through purposive sampling technique. Data were collected from six focus group discussions (FGDs) and thematic analyses were conducted using ATLAS.ti version 9. The results of the FGDs were presented using illuminating verbatim quotations. In all the FGDs, parents were cited as an important source of SRH information. Parent-adolescent conversations on SRH were often initiated by the female parent and this often took the form of case-base discussion. However, most participants indicated were unsatisfied with the topics discussed and the context in which parent-adolescent SRH communications were conducted. Lack of trust, perceived authoritative and insensitive nature of male parents to the needs and plights of adolescent girls, and socio-cultural norms restricting/prohibiting open discussions on SRH, especially those concerning sexuality and contraception, were mentioned as barriers to effective parent-adolescent SRH communications. Parent-adolescent SRH communications were lately initiated, infrequent, and often did not address the most important aspects of adolescent SRH.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

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confidence: 59%

Parent-Adolescent Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health: Perceptions and Experiences of Out-Of-School Adolescent Mothers in the East Gonja Municipality, Ghana

Nketia¹

2022

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“…The possible reason may be due to similarity in the measurement of outcome variable they also measure the presence of communication in the past 6 month. However this nding is lower than study done in Wereta (43.3%) (32) and Yirgalem (36.1%) (33). This difference may be attributable to the difference in the study population.…”

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Parent-adolescent Communication About Contraceptives and Its Associated Factors in Bahir Dar City, North West, Ethiopia, 2022

Wubet

Worku

Abeje

2022

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Background Adolescent pregnancy is a serious and complex problem. An overwhelming majority of teens feel that avoiding teen pregnancy would be easier if they were able to have open discussions about contraceptives with their parents. Objective To assess parent-adolescent communication about contraceptives and its associated factors in Bahir Dar city, North West Ethiopia,2022 GC. Methods Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted. A total of 821 adolescent was included in the study from June 10 to 30/2022GC. Multi stage - simple random sampling technique was used. The data was collected by using a pre-tested and structured interviewer administered questionnaire via Epicollect5. Then it was exported in to Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25 for analysis. Both bivariable and multi-variable logistic regression analysis were done. Variables with a p-value of < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Result Overall (22.3%) (95% CI: 19%-25%) of adolescent had communicated about contraceptives with their parents in the past six months. Favorable attitude toward parent adolescent communication [AOR = 4.014;95%CI: 2.618–6.155], being sexually active[AOR = 2.236,95%CI: 1.341–3.731 ], female sex [AOR = 2.675, 95%CI: 1.761–4.065], age(15–19) [AOR = 1.641,95%CI: 1.042,2.586], knowledgeable toward contraceptives [AOR = 1.661, 95%CI: 1.016–2.717],private school student [AOR = 0.451;95%CI: 0.245–0.831] and family size of ≥ 5[AOR = 2.764,95%CI: 1.791–4.267] were significantly associated with parent adolescent communication about contraceptives. Conclusion and Recommendation: Communication about contraceptives between adolescent and their parent was low. Parent shall give especial emphasis for male adolsecents, but not mean that negelecting the female adolsecent. It is important to encourage and empower parents to start to communicate with their adolescent while the adolescents are still in early adolescent years, before they become sexually active.

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“…The prevalence of parent to young people communication on the sexual and reproductive health issue in this study was found to be 11.4 %( 95%CI: 9.5%, 13% [17][18][19][20][21][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. The possible explanation for this can be, all those studies take place in the urban part of the country in which those who reside in the urban have got different information as they are near to media as well they are more educated.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Reasons Not to Discuss and Challenges of Parent-young Communication and Associated Factors on Sexual and Reproductive Health Among Parents and Students in North Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021, Mixed Qualitative Study

Wondimhunegn

Wale

Kassie

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IntroductionParent - young communication on sexual and reproductive health is one potential source of sexual and reproductive health information for young people. Lack of parent - young people communication was a serious problem in developing countries that resulted in emotional distress, lower self-esteem, school problems, drug use, and sexual risk behaviors. Assessing the the reasons and challenges of parents to young people communication about a sexual and reproductive health issue is the most effective way to prevent preexisting misbehavior in young people. ObjectiveThe study aimed to assess reason not to discuss and challenges of parent-young communication, and associated factors on sexual and reproductive health among parent living with young in North Gondar zone, northwest Ethiopia 2021. MethodsA Community based cross-sectional mixed qualitative study was conducted on 1000 parents of youngs for quantitative and 2FGD and 25 in-depth interviews were included with a diversity of parents and students. Data were collected using a pre-tested and semi-structured questionnaire through face-to-face interviews, FGD, and in-depth interviews. A bivariate and a multivariable logistics regression model was fitted for the quantitative part and individual in-depth interview and focus group discussion will be tape-recorded after verbal consent will be granted and finally translated and transcribed by the data collectors. Thematic analysis will be used to analyze the qualitative data based on emerging themes and sub-themes in line with the study objectives. ResultAccording to this study parent to young communication was found to be11.4 %( 95% CI:9.5,13). Multivariable analysis revealed that, residence (AOR=2.1 95%CI 1.15,9.34), sex (AOR=2.4,95% CI2.11,4.33), knowledge (AOR =3.8, 95% CI2.7,6.34),attitude(AOR=2.2, 95% CI 1.44,4.32) Father’s educational status (AOR=4.3, 95%CI 1.8, 4.56), mother educational status (AOR=2.4,95% CI 1.23, 4.12) number of children (AOR=3,95% CI 2.6,4.74) and age (AOR=3.22,95%CI 2.8, 4.9) were statistically significant associated factors on parent to young people communication.Conclusion and recommendationparent to young communication was low in this study as compared to other studies done in different pockets of Ethiopia. Successively, promotion of parent to young people communication and addressing the importance of parent to young people communication to all parents along with HEW was recommended

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Adolescent-parent communication on sexual and reproductive health issues and associated factors among secondary school students in Woreta town, Northwest Ethiopia: An institutional based cross sectional study

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Parent-Adolescent Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health: Perceptions and Experiences of Out-Of-School Adolescent Mothers in the East Gonja Municipality, Ghana

Parent-Adolescent Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health: Perceptions and Experiences of Out-Of-School Adolescent Mothers in the East Gonja Municipality, Ghana

Parent-adolescent Communication About Contraceptives and Its Associated Factors in Bahir Dar City, North West, Ethiopia, 2022

Reasons Not to Discuss and Challenges of Parent-young Communication and Associated Factors on Sexual and Reproductive Health Among Parents and Students in North Gondar Zone, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021, Mixed Qualitative Study

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