International Center for Child Health and Development, Washington University in St. Louis Brown School, Brown Hall, Office 112, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1196, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2023 Nov;52(8):3521-3530. doi: 10.1007/s10508-023-02639-x. Epub 2023 Jun 22.
Sexual risky behaviors among adolescents and young people remain a major public health problem worldwide. This study examined the impact of parent-adolescent communication on adolescents' possibility to engage in risky behaviors. The study used baseline data from the Suubi-Maka Study (2008-2012) implemented in 10 primary schools in Southern Uganda. Binary logistic regression models were conducted to determine the association between parent-adolescent communication and sexual risk possibility. Results indicate that gender [OR 0.220, 95% CI 0.107, 0.455], age [OR 1.891, 95% CI 1.030, 3.471], household size [OR 0.661, 95% CI 0.479, 0.913], and comfort level of family communication [OR 0.944, 95% CI 0.899, 0.990] were significantly associated with lower levels of sexual risk possibility among adolescents. There is a need to build interventions that make it easy and comfortable for adolescents to have open discussion and communication with parents on sexual risk possibility, risky behaviors, and risky situations.
青少年和年轻人的性行为风险仍然是全球范围内的一个主要公共卫生问题。本研究调查了父母与青少年沟通对青少年参与风险行为可能性的影响。该研究使用了乌干达南部 10 所小学实施的苏比-马卡研究（2008-2012 年）的基线数据。采用二元逻辑回归模型确定了父母与青少年沟通与性风险可能性之间的关联。结果表明，性别[OR 0.220，95%CI 0.107，0.455]、年龄[OR 1.891，95%CI 1.030，3.471]、家庭规模[OR 0.661，95%CI 0.479，0.913]和家庭沟通舒适度[OR 0.944，95%CI 0.899，0.990]与青少年较低的性风险可能性显著相关。需要建立干预措施，使青少年更容易与父母就性风险可能性、风险行为和风险情况进行开放的讨论和沟通。
