Predictive Factors of Sexual Risk Behaviors among Adolescents with Visual Impairment
Keywords:
Sexual risk behavior, Adolescent, Visual impairment, Influence of friendsAbstract
This predictive correlational study, aimed to explore the level of sexual risk behaviors and factors cooperatively predicting sexual risk behaviors among adolescents with visual impairment. The samples were selected by purposive sampling, consisting of adolescents with visual impairment at the age of 13-19 years who were studying in schools for students with visual impairment. The research instruments were the questionnaires which were translated and printed into Braille, comprising 5 parts as follows: 1) demographic characteristics; 2) self-esteem; 3) influence of friends towards sexual risk behaviors; 4) accessibility to sexual media; and 5) sexual risk behaviors among adolescents with visual impairment. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of 2nd-5th part questionnaires were .71, .75, .78, and .75, respectively. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The samples’ means of sexual risk behaviors were 28.85 points (SD = 5.66). Most of them had a low level of sexual risk behaviors (76.4 %). The influence of friends was the only factor which could predict sexual risk behaviors among adolescents with visual impairment with a .01 level of statistical significance (t = 5.571, p < .01), while it could explain 22.3% of the variance of sexual risk behaviors among adolescents with visual impairment (R2 = .223, p < .01). Nurses should utilize this results to planning how to educate adolescents with visual impairment, such as educating on skills for refusing sexual risk behaviors, as well as educating friends’ gang leaders so that they become role models of proper sexual behaviors.
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