ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2020
Risky sexual behaviours among adolescent undergraduate students in Nigeria: does social context of early adolescence matter?
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- Assessing factors influencing adolescent sexual debut in Nigeria: a multi-cluster survival analysis approach.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2025Article
- Risky sexual behaviors and associated factors among adolescent in Gedeo Zone, South Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The realities of adolescent sexual behaviours in Nigeria: a narrative review.African health sciences · 2024Review
- Attitudes and practices regarding contraception among male students in a Nigerian tertiary educational institution: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
- Risky sexual behaviors and their associated factors within high school students from Collège Saint André in Kigali, Rwanda: An institution-based cross-sectional study.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2023Article
- Exposure to Parental Violence and Self-Reported Sexual Violence among Unpartnered Adolescent Girls in Nigeria: Evidence from a National Survey.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2023Article
- Exposure to Sex Education and Its Effects on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Nigeria.Journal of environmental and public health · 2022Article
- Diversities of Sexual Activities and Correlates of Safe Sex Practices Among Adolescents in Plateau State, Nigeria.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionadolescent undergraduate students engage in sexual acts that put them at risk of contracting Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancies. Even though the social context of early adolescence accounts for developmental changes in later phase of life, its impact on adolescents' risky sexual behaviour has not been extensively explored. In this study, we examined how the social context of early adolescence influenced adolescent's risky sexual behaviour in the university.
methodsqualitative data were collected from 24 adolescent undergraduate students of four universities in South-eastern Nigeria. Both males and females, within the age of 16-19 years were interviewed. The data were coded, managed with the use of Atlas.ti software and thematically analysed.
resultsthe findings indicated that risky sexual behaviours among adolescent undergraduate students are embedded in the quality of sex education by parents at early adolescence. As such, unprotected sex and multiple sexual partners were rampant among adolescents who were not exposed to quality sex education at early adolescence. Adolescents whose parents are religious and/or authoritative but did not teach sex education during early adolescence engaged in risky sexual behaviours in the university. Also, adolescent undergraduate students that were raised in rural areas indulged in unprotected sex because of limited access to sex education during early adolescence.
conclusionsocial context of early adolescence means a lot for adolescents' sexual experience in later phase of life. When parents provide their children the right information about sex, it can protect them from risky sexual behaviours as they grow older.
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