P.G. Department of Geography, Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India.
BMC Womens Health. 2023 Jan 11;23(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s12905-022-02149-3.
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health is a major public health issue throughout the world. At the same time shifting of marriage are undergoing discernible changes in country like India. This paper attempts to examine the effect of delay age at marriage on the risks of pre-marital sexual intercourse for the youth people in the place of residence.
Data used in the present study is from various annual publications of Sample Registration System (SRS) and four round of National Family Health Survey, which was conducted in 2015-2016. The Kaplan-Meier life table technique and multivariate regression models are used to examine the premarital sex by the place of residence and marriage cohort.
Findings of the study indicate that the reasons underlying delayed marriage differs between blow 21 years age group and 22-30 years age group. Multinomial analysis clearly shows education, wealth quintile and mass media are major controlling factors of delayed age at marriage. Residing in urban adolescent women who belonged to better economic family background and exposed to mass media had a higher probability to experience premarital sexual intercourse than the rural adolescent in delay age group.
The study concludes that the restorative the empowerment of youth especially for women and health care provider should consider a multidimensional approach for higher education among youth people and safe sexual behaviour in pre-marital sexual intercourse.
青少年性与生殖健康是全世界的一个主要公共卫生问题。同时，印度等国家的婚姻模式正在发生明显变化。本文试图考察初婚年龄延迟对居住地青年婚前性行为风险的影响。
本研究使用的数据来自样本登记系统（SRS）的各种年度出版物和 2015-2016 年进行的四轮全国家庭健康调查。使用 Kaplan-Meier 生命表技术和多变量回归模型，根据居住地和婚姻队列考察婚前性行为。
研究结果表明，21 岁以下和 22-30 岁之间的人延迟结婚的原因不同。多项分析清楚地表明，教育、财富五分位数和大众媒体是初婚年龄延迟的主要控制因素。与农村地区的同龄人相比，居住在城市、经济条件较好、接触大众媒体的年轻女性，更有可能发生婚前性行为。
研究得出结论，恢复青年，特别是妇女的权能，医疗保健提供者应考虑对青年人进行多方面的高等教育，以及婚前性行为中的安全性行为。
