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Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria
Sexual behavior during adolescence fundamentally steers the future life of both girls and boys, and it should be guided with appropriate education, especially as it also represents a key factor to be considered in attainment of sustainable developmental goals. The study assessed the effect of exposu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177302/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35692663 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3962011 |
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author | Osadolor, Uyi E. Amoo, Emmanuel O. Azuh, Dominic E. Mfonido-Abasi, Ikono Washington, Christian Philip Ugbenu, Oke |
author_facet | Osadolor, Uyi E. Amoo, Emmanuel O. Azuh, Dominic E. Mfonido-Abasi, Ikono Washington, Christian Philip Ugbenu, Oke |
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description | Sexual behavior during adolescence fundamentally steers the future life of both girls and boys, and it should be guided with appropriate education, especially as it also represents a key factor to be considered in attainment of sustainable developmental goals. The study assessed the effect of exposure to sex education on adolescents' sexual behavior. The primary and cross-sectional survey data used for this study were analyzed using basic descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression analytical technique. The results, among others, highlighted that the most common sources of first sex education among the respondents are school (54.6%), family (21.6%), social media (9.5%), and others like television (7.6%) and books or magazines (4.9%). Frequency of discussion on sexual matters is positively associated with the use of protection such as condom (β = 0.261; p ≤ 0.01). The study gave support to the increasing pursuit of sexuality education. However, since adolescents' needs could vary by demographics, streamlining sex education need by age and sex characteristics could enhance its effectiveness. |
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spelling | pubmed-91773022022-06-09 Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria Osadolor, Uyi E. Amoo, Emmanuel O. Azuh, Dominic E. Mfonido-Abasi, Ikono Washington, Christian Philip Ugbenu, Oke J Environ Public Health Research Article Sexual behavior during adolescence fundamentally steers the future life of both girls and boys, and it should be guided with appropriate education, especially as it also represents a key factor to be considered in attainment of sustainable developmental goals. The study assessed the effect of exposure to sex education on adolescents' sexual behavior. The primary and cross-sectional survey data used for this study were analyzed using basic descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression analytical technique. The results, among others, highlighted that the most common sources of first sex education among the respondents are school (54.6%), family (21.6%), social media (9.5%), and others like television (7.6%) and books or magazines (4.9%). Frequency of discussion on sexual matters is positively associated with the use of protection such as condom (β = 0.261; p ≤ 0.01). The study gave support to the increasing pursuit of sexuality education. However, since adolescents' needs could vary by demographics, streamlining sex education need by age and sex characteristics could enhance its effectiveness. Hindawi 2022-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9177302/ /pubmed/35692663 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3962011 Text en Copyright © 2022 Uyi E. Osadolor et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Osadolor, Uyi E. Amoo, Emmanuel O. Azuh, Dominic E. Mfonido-Abasi, Ikono Washington, Christian Philip Ugbenu, Oke Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria |
title | Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria |
title_full | Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria |
title_fullStr | Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria |
title_short | Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria |
title_sort | exposure to sex education and its effects on adolescent sexual behavior in nigeria |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177302/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35692663 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3962011 |
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