Factors Influencing to Sexual Risk Protective Behaviors of Adolescents, Regional Health 2
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This study was predictive research. The purpose was to examine the sexual risk protective behaviors and factors influencing adolescent sexual risk protective behaviors utilizing the Socio-ecological model. The sample consisted of 1,092 male and female students aged between 15 and 19 years old. Research instruments were the questionnaire of demographic data, knowledge on sex education, attitude towards sexual intercourse, perceived self-efficacy, peer influence, perceived sexual information from media, parenting styles, family sexual communication, perceived sexual double standards, and sexual risk protective behaviors. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
The result showed that the overall sexual risk protective behavior was at the medium level ( 87.03, SD = 0.42; factors influencing adolescent sexual protective behaviors including peer influence acceptance, perceived self-efficacy, attitude towards sexual intercourse, perceived sexual information from media, parenting styles, family sexual communication and knowledge on sex education can jointly predict sexual risk protective behaviors for 47.8 percent (p < .05). The study results suggested that nurses should develop sexual risk protective behavior programs by encouraging positive peer influence, promoting perceived self-efficacy, encouraging a positive attitude towards sexual intercourse, choosing to consume sexual information from multimedia, providing sexual education, and promoting family sexual communication to reduce sexual risk behaviors further to decrease the prevalence of HIV and STDs infections as well as teenage pregnancy.
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