Sexual Attitudes and Behavior Among Young Adolescents in Jamaica

Eggleston, Elizabeth; Jackson, Jean; Hardee, Karen

doi:10.2307/2991945

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“…Culturally, the girls are expected to become more protective to them and restricted themselves to romance and sex. (Eggleston E, Jackson J, Hardee K, 1999) . As shown in table 3 reported 11.3% male and 0.9% female had already sexual intercourse.…”

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“…According to data center and information of Indonesia health ministry (2014), the prevalence of young woman (15-19 years aged) had a pregnancy is 1.28%. Early childbearing is often associated with a young woman's failure to complete her education, thus limiting her future job prospects and her child's economic well being (Eggleston E, Jackson J, Hardee K, 1999).…”

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Attitude and Behavior Sexual among Adolescents in Yogyakarta

Rahmah¹,

AAAN²,

WW³

2017

IJNP

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Yogyakarta as a tourism city given more impact on attitude and behavior sexuality among adolescents. Notion and ideas about sexuality much influenced by the Globally issued environment. This study is basically on the attitude and behavior about sexuality among adolescent. It is of public health importance to examine this topic to inform sex education, policymaking, prevention and intervention program. This study explored the characteristics of sexual attitudes, and high risk premarital sexual behaviors among 106 unmarried youth aged 15 to 17 years usedsexual behavior questionnareand adopted from BriefSexual Attitude Scaleto investigate sexual attitudes. The scale measures sexual attitudes on four dimensions, being permissiveness, birth control (sexual practices), communion (investment in relationship), and instrumentality (pleasure-orientation to relationship). This study shown to female prefer low being permissiveness and male prefer high birth control , communion, and instrumentality for aspect sexual attitude. The male shown to prefer high premarital sexual behavior than female. Adolescents still have high risk sexual behavior, so parent, school and government should arrange intervention program together toward sex education for adolescents.

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Attitude and Behavior Sexual among Adolescents in Yogyakarta

Rahmah¹,

AAAN²,

WW³

2017

IJNP

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“…This is in contra-distinction to a similar study 18 . Other studies have, however, correlated knowledge of contraceptives with students" attitude 33 sexual attitude and behaviour of adolescents 34 and contraceptive practice 11 .…”

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Knowledge, Perception and Practice of Contraception among Staff and Students in a University Community in Delta State, Nigeria

Ijeoma

2015

PBJ

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There is evidence to show that unplanned pregnancies are on the increase among women in Nigeria. It is true that one of the ways to improve reproductive health is by enhancing access to contraception. This study was to evaluate knowledge, perceptions and practices of contraception among 500 staff and students of a university in south-south Nigeria. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in the Abraka and Oleh Campuses of Delta State University using appropriately designed, validated and pre-tested questionnaire. Data was analyzed with SPSS version 20. Respondents were students (70%), males (47.8%), aged 21-30 (48.9%) and Christians (90.9%). 84% of the respondents had good-to-excellent knowledge of contraceptives; 75.1% were sexually-active; contraceptive use prevalence was 58.2%; main reasons for non-use of contraceptive were hatred for it an intolerable side-effects. Condoms and oral pills were the preferred methods and safety, reliability and accessibility were proffered as reasons for choice; 17.3% had experienced contraceptive failure which resulted in abortion (47.4%). Pharmacy shops, health centers and Chemist shops were the sources for procuring contraceptive products; Family/friends, television and health professionals were sources of information about contraception; 46.7% did not experience side-effects; marital status was correlated with contraceptive knowledge and use. This study recommends that family planning should be vigorously promoted in a country like Nigeria with a high fertility, maternal and child mortality rates.

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“…Drawing from youth studies, researchers have argued the need to begin sexuality education at younger ages and in younger grades (Eggleston et al, 1999;Gorgen et al, 1998). Unfortunately, in some cases, implementing this shift boils down to focusing only on negative aspects of sexuality (protection against abuse) or on lessons about intercourse and contraception for children who are not prepared for such information.…”

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confidence: 99%