Cornelius Judith B, Okoro Florence, Piper Crystal N
School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.
Adolesc Health Med Ther. 2021 Jan 7;12:1-8. doi: 10.2147/AHMT.S281662. eCollection 2021.
The process of parental sexual communication has been shown to delay the sexual debut of adolescents; however, few studies have focused on extended family members such as grandparents. The purpose of this study was to compare the process and content of sexual communications among African-American adolescent children living in parent or grandparent headed families.
A secondary analysis of two de-identified datasets from 80 African-American adolescents was conducted.
Findings indicated that there were no significant differences in the sexual communication process in relation to facilitators p= 0.38 and barriers p =0.23 with the discussions. There were however significant differences with adolescents' attitudes (p = 0.04) and feelings regarding sexual abstinence (p =0.01), HIV prevention (p= 0.002) and teen pregnancy (p= 0.010).
Researchers can use the results of this study as a beginning point in examining the sexual communication process in grandparent-headed families.
父母进行性方面的沟通已被证明会延迟青少年首次性行为的时间；然而，很少有研究关注祖父母等大家庭成员。本研究的目的是比较生活在由父母或祖父母当家的家庭中的非裔美国青少年子女之间性沟通的过程和内容。
对来自80名非裔美国青少年的两个匿名数据集进行二次分析。
研究结果表明，在性沟通过程中，促进因素（p = 0.38）和阻碍因素（p = 0.23）与讨论之间没有显著差异。然而，青少年在性禁欲态度（p = 0.04）、对性禁欲的感受（p = 0.01）、艾滋病毒预防（p = 0.002）和青少年怀孕（p = 0.010）方面存在显著差异。
研究人员可以将本研究结果作为审视由祖父母当家的家庭中性沟通过程的起点。
