scholarly journals Examining Parental Monitoring and Deviant Peers as Pathways to Sexual Risk Behaviors among Tehran (IR Iran) Adolescents

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-5
Author(s):  
Dexter R. Voisin
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Deviant Peers

Sexual risk behaviors and influencing factors among Muslim adolescents on southern border of Thailand

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fusiyah Hayee ◽  
Warunee Fongkaew ◽  
Chawapornpan Chanprasit ◽  
Thanee Kaewthummanukul ◽  
Joachim G. Voss
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Contraceptive Pills ◽  
Southern Border

AbstractObjectivesTo describe individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors and sexual risk behaviors among Thai Muslim adolescents.MethodsWe recruited adolescents from four schools and one vocational college on the Southern border of Thailand during October 2018 to January 2019. We used password-protected online questionnaires for each respondent to protect their privacy.ResultsWe recruited N = 700 participants of which 9% were sexually experienced. Of those participants, many had never used a condom (41.3%) or considered taking contraceptive pills (71.4%). Moreover, 54% of them have had sexual intercourse more than once. Some had been infected with an STI (17.5%), and (14.3%) became pregnant more than once. Adolescents reported individual factors such as high religiosity (58.7%), and (47.6%) practiced Islam daily with no differences between boys and girls. Girls had significantly higher refusal of sex self-efficiency than boys (96 vs. 119.5, p < 0.05). In the interpersonal factors, boys had more uninvolved parenting style, lower parental monitoring, higher parental approval of sex, and higher perceived peer norm than girls. The environmental factors besides cultural norms impacted girls and boys equally.ConclusionsWe showed low rates of sexual activity, but in those adolescents who were sexually active we showed high rates of lack of knowledge and higher rates of sexual risk behaviors. Individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors all influenced sexual risk behaviors. We recommend comprehensive sexuality education that includes Islamic context for adolescents and their parents embedded in policy, religious, and community cultural practices.

scholarly journals Parental monitoring and adolescent health risk behaviors: A comparative analysis of nine Southeast Asian countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thang Vo
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Timor Leste

Abstract Background: Strong parental monitoring is thought to protect adolescents from engaging in health risk behaviors. However, differing levels of economic development and regulatory systems suggest that findings from Western countries may not generalize to Southeast Asia. This study analyzed the relationship between parental monitoring and health risk behaviors among adolescents in nine Southeast Asian countries.Methods: Cross-sectional data for 52,803 adolescents (aged 11–18 years; 51.4% female) were obtained from the World Health Organization’s Global School-Based Student Health Survey. Data collected between 2007 and 2015 was available for Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, The Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Timor-Leste, and Laos. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess the relationships between parental monitoring, sexual risk behaviors, and substance use. Age, gender, country differences in sexual risk behaviors, and substance use were also examined.Results: The results revealed that adolescents who reported regular parental monitoring had a lower probability of engaging in sexual risk behaviors and substance use. Using alcohol, prohibited substances, and tobacco was significantly associated with engaging in sexual risk behaviors. Males and older participants were more likely than females and younger participants to report all forms of health risk behavior. Significant differences existed in risk behavior between countries, with participants in Timor-Leste the most likely to engage in most forms of health risk behavior.Conclusion: We considered the results in the context of the economic and regulatory environments in each country. In developing countries, particularly those with relatively strong economic growth and relaxed drug and alcohol regulations, parental monitoring, and other factors such as culture, education, and the health system play a crucial role in protecting adolescents from risky behaviors.

scholarly journals Contextual Factors and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Young, Black Men

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamal Jones ◽  
Laura F. Salazar ◽  
Richard Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Peer Norms ◽  
Effect Modifier ◽  
Number Of Sexual Partners

Young Black men (YBM), aged 13 to 24 years, face a disproportionate burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). STI acquisition among YBM is due to incorrect and inconsistent condom use and is exacerbated by multiple sexual partners. Sexual and reproductive health is influenced by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social determinants that contribute to increased risk for STI acquisition. However, there are key social determinants of sexual health that play a major role in adolescent sexual risk–taking behaviors: gender norms, environment, peers, and families as well as a desire to impregnate a woman. Associations between contextual factors (risky environmental context, desire to impregnate a woman, and peer norms supportive of unsafe sex) and sexual risk behaviors were examined among a sample of YBM attending adolescent health clinics. This study used baseline data from a randomized controlled trial ( N = 702). Parental monitoring was also examined as an effect modifier of those associations. Sexual risk behaviors were the frequency of condomless vaginal sex, number of sexual partners within the previous 2 months, and lifetime number of sexual partners. Mean age was 19.7. In the adjusted model, peer norms was the only significant predictor for all sexual risk outcomes ( p < .05). Parental monitoring was an effect modifier for the perceived peer norms and lifetime sexual partners association ( p = .053) where the effect of peer norms on lifetime sexual partners was lower for participants with higher levels of perceived parental monitoring.

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