Nyirandegeya Jacqueline, Rugema Joselyne, Katende Godfrey
School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda.
Rory Meyers school of Nursing, New York University, New York, United States.
Rwanda J Med Health Sci. 2022 Apr 12;5(1):20-33. doi: 10.4314/rjmhs.v5i1.4. eCollection 2022 Apr.
Younger generation engages in sexual activities that often result in early pregnancies, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, and sexually transmitted infections. Parent-adolescent communication could be a sustainable solution to improved adolescent reproductive health.
To determine factors facilitating adolescent communication with the parents on sexual risk-taking behaviours.
A cross-sectional study design was used with a sample of 199 adolescents. A self-administered questionnaire through a simple random sampling technique was employed, and participation was voluntary. Descriptive and inferential statistics were performed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (IBM-Version 21).
The adolescents who never spoke to their mothers on sexual risk activities were 20.1%. The factors that facilitated adolescent communication with their parents about sex risk behaviours were: age of adolescents (r = -0.166, p = 0.023), living arrangement of adolescents (r = 0.147, p = 0.045), Having home mate brothers and sisters (r = 0.142, p = 0.05) and living with grandparents (r = 0.220, p = 0.003).
Parents' time to interact with their adolescent children was insufficient. There are numerous factors that positively and negatively influence parent-adolescent communication on sexual risk behaviors. General communication was found to be an important facet and a strategy to conveying reproductive and sexual issues to adolescents by the parents.
年轻一代参与的性活动常常导致早孕、不安全堕胎、性虐待和性传播感染。父母与青少年之间的沟通可能是改善青少年生殖健康的一个可持续解决方案。
确定促进青少年与父母就性冒险行为进行沟通的因素。
采用横断面研究设计，样本为199名青少年。通过简单随机抽样技术使用自填式问卷，参与是自愿的。使用社会科学统计软件包（IBM版本21）进行描述性和推断性统计。
从未与母亲谈论过性风险活动的青少年占20.1%。促进青少年与父母就性风险行为进行沟通的因素有：青少年年龄（r = -0.166，p = 0.023）、青少年的居住安排（r = 0.147，p = 0.045）、有同住的兄弟姐妹（r = 0.142，p = 0.05）以及与祖父母同住（r = 0.220，p = 0.003）。
父母与青春期孩子互动的时间不足。有许多因素对父母与青少年就性风险行为的沟通产生积极和消极影响。发现一般性沟通是父母向青少年传达生殖和性问题的一个重要方面和策略。
