Early sexual debut and associated factors among in-school adolescents in six Caribbean countries
SOURCE: West Indian Medical Journal
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Peltzer, S.Pengpid
KEYWORDS: ADOLESCENTS, CARIBBEAN, RISK BEHAVIOUR, SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9307
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9951
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9951
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Peltzer, S.Pengpid
KEYWORDS: ADOLESCENTS, CARIBBEAN, RISK BEHAVIOUR, SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9307
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9951
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9951
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
This report examines early sexual debut (< age 15 years) among 15-year old in-school adolescents in six Caribbean countries. The total sample included 9948 school children aged primarily 13-16 years from nationally representative samples from six Caribbean countries. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to assess the relationship between early sexual debut and substance use, unintentional injuries and violence, mental distress, physical activity, protective factors and socio-economic status variables. Approximately one-fourth of the sample (26.9%) had experienced sexual debut before age 15 years, 37.2% among boys and 16.9% among girls. In multivariate logistic regression analysis, it was found that male gender, substance use (smoking and alcohol use), having been in a physical fight in the past 12 months, sedentary behaviour, truancy and lack of parental or guardian attachment were associated with early sexual debut. This study found a high prevalence of early sexual debut. The risk factors identified were consistent with the Problem Behaviour Theory, which can be incorporated into broader sexual health promotion programmes.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Gender role attitudes and sexual risk among adolescents in South Africa
- Early sexual debut and associated factors among in-school adolescents in eight African countries
- Early sexual debut and associated factors among in-school adolescents in eight African countries
- Prevalence and social correlates of sexual intercourse among school-going adolescents in Thailand
- HIV/STI risk-reduction intervention efficacy with South African adolescents over 54 months
- Risk and protective factors affecting sexual risk behavior among school-aged adolescents in Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, and Vanuatu
- Child-focused state cash transfers and adolescent risk of HIV infection in South Africa: a propensity-score-matched case-control study
- Parenting and youth sexual risk in context: the role of community factors
- Too young to have sex: conversations with very young adolescents about sex, dating and related decision-making
- Abstract: Determinants of the use of voluntary counselling and testing services among the sexually active adult population of South Africa
- Sexual self-esteem and body image of South African spinal cord injured adolescents
- Intimate partner violence as a factor associated with risky sexual behaviours and alcohol misuse among men
- Sexual risk behaviour among South African adolescents: is orphan status a factor?
- Methamphetamine use and sexual risks for HIV infection in Cape Town, South Africa
- Disclosure of HIV status to sex partners and sexual risk behaviours amongh HIV-positive men and women, Cape Town, South Africa
- Alcohol use and sexual risks for HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review of empirical findings
- Behaviourial risks and HIV sero-status household survey in the Klerksdorp district of South Africa: a baseline study
- Alcohol expectations and risky drinking among men and women at high-risk for HIV infection in Cape Town, South Africa
- Recent multiple sexual partners and HIV transmission risks among people living with HIV/AIDS in Botswana
- Rapid appraisal of substance abuse and HIV awareness messages in poster communication to disadvantaged youth in South Africa