Sexual activity and contraceptive knowledge and use among in-school adolescents in Nigeria
Sexual activity and contraceptive knowledge and use among in-school adolescents in Nigeria
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10.2307/2950783
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1997-03-01
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Obikeze, DS
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Amazigo, U;Silva, N;Obikeze, DS
在尼日利亚东南部两个州接受调查的2460名中学生中，只有36%的人能正确识别出最可能受孕的时间。女生比男生更有可能了解受孕时间（46%对25%）；学生的住所和学校年级之间的差异不太明显。在提供性行为信息的学生中，40%有过性行为；有过性经验的比例从14岁的26%上升到18-19岁的54% -55%。36%的年轻女性有过与她们年龄相仿的性伴侣，25%的人与年长的商人有过关系；这些年轻女性说，与有同龄男友的女性相比，她们与年长的伴侣交往时性生活更频繁，而且不太可能将性生活限制在生理周期的安全期。只有17%的性活跃学生使用过除禁欲以外的避孕方法。在焦点小组和深入讨论中，学生们表示强烈希望对避孕和性交后果进行更好的教育，并建议学校和家长参与对年轻人进行生殖健康教育。
Among 2,460 secondary school students surveyed in two southeastern Nigerian states, only 36% could correctly identify the most likely time for conception to occur. Female students were considerably more likely than males to understand the timing of conception (46% vs. 25%; less dramatic differences emerged by students' residence and grade in school. Among students who supplied information about their sexual activity, 40% had had intercourse; the proportion who were sexually experienced climbed from 26% of 14-year-olds to 54-55% of 18-19-year-olds. While 36% of the young women had had sexual partners who were roughly their age, 25% had been involved with older businessmen; the young women said they have intercourse more frequently and are less likely to restrict intercourse to the safe period of their cycle when they are involved with older partners than when they have boyfriends their own age. Only 17% of sexually active students had ever used a contraceptive method other than abstinence. In focus groups and in-depth discussions, students expressed a strong desire for better education about contraception and the consequences of sexual intercourse, and recommended that both schools and parents participate in educating young people about reproductive health.