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Influence of Selected Sociodemographic and Cultural Factors on the Age of Sexual Initiation of Students from Polish Universities

Sexuality is the one of the most important parts of human life. The aim of our study was to identify the factors influencing the onset and age of sexual initiation in students and drawing attention to the need to improve access to sexual education in Polish schools at a sufficiently high level. An o...

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Autores principales: Stokłosa, Maciej, Stokłosa, Iga, Więckiewicz, Gniewko, Porwolik, Mateusz, Bugajski, Maciej, Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz, Pudlo, Robert, Gorczyca, Piotr, Piegza, Magdalena
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9967995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834163
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043468
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author Stokłosa, Maciej
Stokłosa, Iga
Więckiewicz, Gniewko
Porwolik, Mateusz
Bugajski, Maciej
Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz
Pudlo, Robert
Gorczyca, Piotr
Piegza, Magdalena
author_facet Stokłosa, Maciej
Stokłosa, Iga
Więckiewicz, Gniewko
Porwolik, Mateusz
Bugajski, Maciej
Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz
Pudlo, Robert
Gorczyca, Piotr
Piegza, Magdalena
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description Sexuality is the one of the most important parts of human life. The aim of our study was to identify the factors influencing the onset and age of sexual initiation in students and drawing attention to the need to improve access to sexual education in Polish schools at a sufficiently high level. An original questionnaire with 31 questions was used for the study. Data were collected using the Google Forms tool. A total of 7528 students participated in the study and 5824 underwent sexual initiation. The mean age at sexual initiation was 18.1 years. Logistic regression analysis was performed to show factors influencing the onset of sexual activity, while linear regression analysis was used for factors influencing the age of sexual initiation. Religion, drug use, smoking, alcohol consumption, type of housing, and conversations with parents about contraception or sex affect the onset of sexual activity. The age of sexual initiation is affected by religion, the age of the first viewing of pornography, quality of life, the size of the city of residence, smoking and drug use.
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spelling pubmed-99679952023-02-27 Influence of Selected Sociodemographic and Cultural Factors on the Age of Sexual Initiation of Students from Polish Universities Stokłosa, Maciej Stokłosa, Iga Więckiewicz, Gniewko Porwolik, Mateusz Bugajski, Maciej Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz Pudlo, Robert Gorczyca, Piotr Piegza, Magdalena Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Sexuality is the one of the most important parts of human life. The aim of our study was to identify the factors influencing the onset and age of sexual initiation in students and drawing attention to the need to improve access to sexual education in Polish schools at a sufficiently high level. An original questionnaire with 31 questions was used for the study. Data were collected using the Google Forms tool. A total of 7528 students participated in the study and 5824 underwent sexual initiation. The mean age at sexual initiation was 18.1 years. Logistic regression analysis was performed to show factors influencing the onset of sexual activity, while linear regression analysis was used for factors influencing the age of sexual initiation. Religion, drug use, smoking, alcohol consumption, type of housing, and conversations with parents about contraception or sex affect the onset of sexual activity. The age of sexual initiation is affected by religion, the age of the first viewing of pornography, quality of life, the size of the city of residence, smoking and drug use. MDPI 2023-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9967995/ /pubmed/36834163 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043468 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Bugajski, Maciej
Męcik-Kronenberg, Tomasz
Pudlo, Robert
Gorczyca, Piotr
Piegza, Magdalena
Influence of Selected Sociodemographic and Cultural Factors on the Age of Sexual Initiation of Students from Polish Universities
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title_short Influence of Selected Sociodemographic and Cultural Factors on the Age of Sexual Initiation of Students from Polish Universities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9967995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36834163
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043468
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