de Irala Jokin, Osorio Alfonso, López del Burgo Cristina, Belen Vina A, de Guzman Filipinas O, Calatrava María del Carmen, Torralba Antonio N
Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Department of Education, School of Medicine, University of Navarra, Irunlarrea 1, 31008 Pamplona, Spain.
BMC Public Health. 2009 Aug 5;9:282. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-282.
In order to achieve a change among teens' sexual behavior, an important step is to improve our knowledge about their opinions concerning relationships, love and sexuality.
A questionnaire including topics on relationships, love and sexuality was distributed to a target population of 4,000 Filipino students from third year high school to third year college. Participants were obtained through multi-stage sampling of clusters of universities and schools. This paper concentrates on teens aged 13 to 18.
Students reported that they obtained information about love and sexuality mainly from friends. However, they valued parents' opinion more than friends'. They revealed few conversations with their parents on these topics. A majority of them would like to have more information, mainly about emotion-related topics. Almost half of respondents were not aware that condoms are not 100% effective in preventing STIs or pregnancies. More girls, compared to boys, were sensitive and opposed to several types of sexism. After adjusting for sex, age and institution, the belief of 100% condom effectiveness and the approval of pornography and sexism were associated with being sexually experienced.
There is room for further encouraging parents to talk more with their children about sexuality, specially aspects related to feelings and emotions in order to help them make better sexual choices. Indeed, teens wish to better communicate with their parents on these issues. Condoms are regarded as safer than what they really are by almost half of the participants of this study, and such incorrect knowledge seems to be associated with sexual initiation.
为了改变青少年的性行为，重要的一步是增进我们对他们有关恋爱、爱情和性取向观点的了解。
向4000名从高中三年级到大学三年级的菲律宾学生这一目标群体发放了一份包含恋爱、爱情和性取向主题的问卷。参与者通过对大学和学校集群的多阶段抽样获得。本文聚焦于13至18岁的青少年。
学生们表示，他们主要从朋友那里获取有关爱情和性取向的信息。然而，他们更看重父母的意见而非朋友的意见。他们透露与父母就这些话题的交流很少。他们中的大多数人希望获得更多信息，主要是与情感相关的话题。几乎一半的受访者不知道避孕套在预防性传播感染或怀孕方面并非100%有效。与男孩相比，更多女孩对几种性别歧视敏感并持反对态度。在对性别、年龄和学校进行调整后，认为避孕套100%有效的信念以及对色情内容和性别歧视的认可与有性经历相关。
仍有空间进一步鼓励父母与孩子更多地谈论性取向，特别是与感受和情感相关的方面，以帮助他们做出更好的性选择。事实上，青少年希望在这些问题上更好地与父母沟通。在这项研究的近一半参与者中，避孕套被认为比其实际安全性更高，而这种错误认知似乎与开始性行为有关。
