PARENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN: A SCOPING REVIEW

Background: Parents play important role for educationg children about sexual and reproductive health. Sexual and reproductive health education is very important to be provided for children in early age, so that they could protect themselves from sexual violence. However, the information about sexual and reproductive health should be taught by parents so that children do not misstep in their lives. Objective: to review the evidence of parenting involvement in adolescent sexual and reproductive health education. Methods: The method of scoping reviews have adopted the framework of Arksey and O'Malley (2005), the steps of framework are (1) The identification of scoping review questions, (2) The identification of relevant articles, (3) The selection of articles, (4) Data Charting , (5) Maping, collating and summarizing. The writer searches for articles in 3 databases and selects the original article for review. The article theme focuses on the parents involvement in sexual and reproductive health education against children in developing countries that conducted in 2009-2019. Findings: Out of the 8 selected articles. Five themes of scoping review are the factors that influence parent and child communication, such as age, gender, education, social, economic, generation and relationship of family gaps. The obstacle of providing reproductive health education and sexual in children due to parents are ashamed, uncomfortable , lack of knowledge , and the influence of culture and norms. HIV/AIDS is a topic that is often discussed by parents. Knowing about sex education is important for children, while parents and teachers are sources of this information. In order to teach sexual and reproductive health education well, parents need good communication and improve their knowledge. Conclusion: In order to provide sexual and reproductive health education, there are several factors and barriers that affect the communication of parents and children. Parents only discuss sexual and reproductive health issues generally. They also teach their children about the dangers of premarital sex.

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Sexual and reproductive health education and its association with ever use of contraception: a cross-sectional study among women in urban slums, Accra

Reproductive Health ◽

10.1186/s12978-021-01322-5 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Abdul-Aziz Seidu ◽

Edward Kwabena Ameyaw ◽

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah ◽

Leonard Baatiema ◽

Samuel Dery ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Education ◽

Reproductive Health ◽

Sex Education ◽

Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽

Urban Slums ◽

P Value ◽

Odds Ratios ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Contraception Use ◽

Reproductive Health Education

Abstract Background Sexual and reproductive health education among girls and women has several reproductive health benefits, including improved contraceptive knowledge, contraception use at first intercourse, increased chance of contraceptive use in a lifetime, and effective usage of contraceptives. It is however not clear whether women/girls in urban slums who have had sexual and reproductive health education would likely utilize contraception. This study sets out to test the hypothesis that Accra slum women who have had sex education have higher chances of ever using contraception. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted among reproductive aged women in two slums (i.e. Agbogbloshie and Old Fadama) in Accra, Ghana. A sample size of 691, made up of respondents who provided responses to the question on ever used contraception, sex education as well as those with complete information on all the other variables of interest was considered in this study. Binary logistic regression models were fitted to examine association between sexual and reproductive health education and ever use of contraception. Crude odds ratios (cOR) and adjusted odds ratios (aOR) at p-value less than 0.05 were used to assess the strength of the association between the outcome and independent variables. Results More than half (56.73%) of the women have never received sexual and reproductive health education. Most of the respondents (77.28%) had ever used contraceptives. Women who had no form of sexual and reproductive health education had lower odds of ever using contraception (OR = 0.641, 95% CI 0.443, 0.928) and this persisted after controlling for the effect of demographic factors (AOR = 0.652, 95% CI 0.436, 0.975] compared to those who have ever received any form of sex education. Non-married women as well as women who were exposed to media (newspapers/radio/television) were also more likely to use contraceptives in slums in Accra, Ghana. Conclusion The study revealed a relatively low prevalence of sex education among women in urban slums in Accra. However, sex education was found to increase the odds of ever use of contraception. These findings call for intensified sexual and reproductive health education among reproductive aged girls and women in urban slums in Accra using existing informal social networks and local media platforms.

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