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Sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon
INTRODUCTION: Since female learners in high schools in Cameroon fall within the age group hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, it is assumed that these learners might be exposed to sexual risk behaviours. However, little has been explored on the sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Cameroon....
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26090007 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.49.2938 |
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author | Tarkang, Elvis Enowbeyang |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Since female learners in high schools in Cameroon fall within the age group hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, it is assumed that these learners might be exposed to sexual risk behaviours. However, little has been explored on the sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Cameroon. This study aimed at examining the sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon. METHODS: A cross sectional design was adopted, using a self-administered questionnaire for data collection. Respondents were selected through disproportional stratified simple random sampling resulting in 210 female grade 10 to grade 12 learners from three participating high schools in Mbonge subdivision, Cameroon. Descriptive and inferential statistics were calculated using SPSS version 20 software program. RESULTS: Majority of the respondents, 54.0% reported being sexually active, of whom only 39.8% used condoms during first sex; 49.5% used condoms during last sex and 29.6% used condoms consistently. Up to 32% of the sexually active respondents had multiple sexual partners in the past one year before the study, while 9.3% had multiple sexual partners during the study period. The mean age of first sex was 15.6 years. Lack of parental control, religion, academic profile, poverty, place of residence and perception of risk of HIV infection were the main factors significantly associated with sexual risk behaviours. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate that sexual risk behaviours exist among high school female learners in Mbonge, Cameroon. There is need for campaigns and interventions to bring about sexual behaviour change. |
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spelling | pubmed-44499852015-06-18 Sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon Tarkang, Elvis Enowbeyang Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: Since female learners in high schools in Cameroon fall within the age group hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, it is assumed that these learners might be exposed to sexual risk behaviours. However, little has been explored on the sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Cameroon. This study aimed at examining the sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon. METHODS: A cross sectional design was adopted, using a self-administered questionnaire for data collection. Respondents were selected through disproportional stratified simple random sampling resulting in 210 female grade 10 to grade 12 learners from three participating high schools in Mbonge subdivision, Cameroon. Descriptive and inferential statistics were calculated using SPSS version 20 software program. RESULTS: Majority of the respondents, 54.0% reported being sexually active, of whom only 39.8% used condoms during first sex; 49.5% used condoms during last sex and 29.6% used condoms consistently. Up to 32% of the sexually active respondents had multiple sexual partners in the past one year before the study, while 9.3% had multiple sexual partners during the study period. The mean age of first sex was 15.6 years. Lack of parental control, religion, academic profile, poverty, place of residence and perception of risk of HIV infection were the main factors significantly associated with sexual risk behaviours. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate that sexual risk behaviours exist among high school female learners in Mbonge, Cameroon. There is need for campaigns and interventions to bring about sexual behaviour change. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4449985/ /pubmed/26090007 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.49.2938 Text en © Elvis Enowbeyang Tarkang et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Tarkang, Elvis Enowbeyang Sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon |
title | Sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon |
title_full | Sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon |
title_fullStr | Sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon |
title_full_unstemmed | Sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon |
title_short | Sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in Mbonge subdivision of rural Cameroon |
title_sort | sexual risk behaviours of high school female learners in mbonge subdivision of rural cameroon |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26090007 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.49.2938 |
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