Early Sexual Debut and the Effects on Well-Being among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15 to 24 Years

We compared first sex experiences and wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who had an early sexual debut (age < 15) with those who had later sexual debut. We conducted a representative household survey among AGYW aged 15–24 years in six districts in South Africa. Of 3009 AGYW who...

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Autores principales: Appollis, Tracy McClinton, Jonas, Kim, Beauclair, Roxanne, Lombard, Carl, Duby, Zoe, Cheyip, Mireille, Maruping, Kealeboga, Dietrich, Janan, Mathews, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9462400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36092761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2021.1979162
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author Appollis, Tracy McClinton
Jonas, Kim
Beauclair, Roxanne
Lombard, Carl
Duby, Zoe
Cheyip, Mireille
Maruping, Kealeboga
Dietrich, Janan
Mathews, Catherine
author_facet Appollis, Tracy McClinton
Jonas, Kim
Beauclair, Roxanne
Lombard, Carl
Duby, Zoe
Cheyip, Mireille
Maruping, Kealeboga
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description We compared first sex experiences and wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who had an early sexual debut (age < 15) with those who had later sexual debut. We conducted a representative household survey among AGYW aged 15–24 years in six districts in South Africa. Of 3009 AGYW who had ever had sex, 8.9% reported early sexual debut. Early sexual debut was associated with coercion at first sex and a lower average well-being score compared with a later debut. Interventions which aim to delay early sexual debut may positively affect well-being.
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spelling pubmed-94624002022-09-09 Early Sexual Debut and the Effects on Well-Being among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15 to 24 Years Appollis, Tracy McClinton Jonas, Kim Beauclair, Roxanne Lombard, Carl Duby, Zoe Cheyip, Mireille Maruping, Kealeboga Dietrich, Janan Mathews, Catherine Int J Sex Health Article We compared first sex experiences and wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who had an early sexual debut (age < 15) with those who had later sexual debut. We conducted a representative household survey among AGYW aged 15–24 years in six districts in South Africa. Of 3009 AGYW who had ever had sex, 8.9% reported early sexual debut. Early sexual debut was associated with coercion at first sex and a lower average well-being score compared with a later debut. Interventions which aim to delay early sexual debut may positively affect well-being. 2021-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9462400/ /pubmed/36092761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2021.1979162 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Appollis, Tracy McClinton
Jonas, Kim
Beauclair, Roxanne
Lombard, Carl
Duby, Zoe
Cheyip, Mireille
Maruping, Kealeboga
Dietrich, Janan
Mathews, Catherine
Early Sexual Debut and the Effects on Well-Being among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15 to 24 Years
title Early Sexual Debut and the Effects on Well-Being among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15 to 24 Years
title_full Early Sexual Debut and the Effects on Well-Being among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15 to 24 Years
title_fullStr Early Sexual Debut and the Effects on Well-Being among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15 to 24 Years
title_full_unstemmed Early Sexual Debut and the Effects on Well-Being among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15 to 24 Years
title_short Early Sexual Debut and the Effects on Well-Being among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women Aged 15 to 24 Years
title_sort early sexual debut and the effects on well-being among south african adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 years
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9462400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36092761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2021.1979162
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