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Title Risky Sexual Behaviours among Adolescents in Owerri Municipal: Predictors of Unmet Family Health Needs
Full text http://ajol.info/index.php/ajrh/article/view/55678
Date 2010
Author(s) BO Nwankwo; EA Nwake
Abstract This study examined the risky sexual behaviours (RSBs) of adolescents in Owerri Municipal in Imo State. Adopting the descriptive Survey research design, a stratified sampling technique was used to enroll 1008 adolescents aged 10 - 19 from 4 secondary schools into the study. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Result shown that majority of the adolescent (47.4%) have had sex and many have engaged in one form of RSBs or another. Peer group seem to be major source of the sexuality information (55.6%) and influencing factor (52.3%) .Significant association was found to exist between adolescents RSBs and age at first sexual experience or adolescent perception of parental rearing pattern (p
Subject(s) Adolescents, Risky Sexual behavior (RSB), Predictor, Unmet needs, Health, Family, Municipality, Owerri, Nigeria
Language en
Publisher African Journal of Reproductive Health
Type of publication Peer-reviewed Article
Format application/pdf
Source African Journal of Reproductive Health; Vol 13, No 1 (2009)
Rights Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by Women's Health and Action Research Centre
Repository Africa - African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
Added to C-A: 2010-08-26;09:03:13