Ohalete Nnenna, Georges Jane, Doswell Willa
University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
ABNF J. 2010 Winter;21(1):14-20.
To evaluate reproductive health communication between African American fathers and their children.
In this qualitative ethnographic study, data were collected through tape-recorded individual interviews about the content and timing of reproductive health communication, the reproductive health values fathers intended to impart to their children, and their comfort level in doing so.
A total sample of 19 African-American fathers participated.
Data were coded according to the qualitative analytic principles established by Miles and Huberman (1994), and analyzed using manifest and latent content analysis approaches.
Although 10 fathers reported feeling uncomfortable having these conversations, 18 reported having reproductive health communication with their children, and most encouraged their sons and daughters to delay sex until adulthood. These conversations were primarily driven by the fear of HIV/AIDS and the negative consequences of sex; however, some conversations were inappropriate for developmental age.
African-American fathers may benefit from education to help them have age appropriate reproductive health communication with their children. Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners are well positioned to educate African American adolescents and their fathers on reproductive health. Future dyadic African American father-child studies are needed to explore more fully African-American children's perceptions of reproductive health communication and the effect on delaying sex.
评估非裔美国父亲与其子女之间关于生殖健康的交流情况。
在这项定性人种学研究中，通过对有关生殖健康交流的内容和时机、父亲打算向子女传授的生殖健康价值观以及他们在进行此类交流时的舒适程度的录音个人访谈来收集数据。
共有19位非裔美国父亲参与了样本。
根据迈尔斯和休伯曼（1994年）确立的定性分析原则对数据进行编码，并使用显性和隐性内容分析方法进行分析。
尽管10位父亲表示进行这些谈话时感到不自在，但18位父亲报告称与子女有过生殖健康方面的交流，且大多数人鼓励子女推迟性行为至成年。这些谈话主要是出于对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的恐惧以及性行为的负面后果；然而，有些谈话并不适合孩子的发育年龄。
非裔美国父亲可能会从教育中受益，以帮助他们与子女进行符合年龄阶段的生殖健康交流。注册护士和执业护士有能力对非裔美国青少年及其父亲进行生殖健康教育。未来需要开展更多非裔美国父子/女二元组研究，以更全面地探索非裔美国儿童对生殖健康交流的看法以及对推迟性行为的影响。
