Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students
<strong>Introduction:</strong> The need of love plays an important role in the lives of adolescents. The success they integrate their sexuality with, depends on a complex set of factors. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> To characterize sexual and reproductive behaviour...
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| author | Perla Caridad López Hernández Eneida Bravo Polanco Carmen Benítez Cabrera Lisbet Cepero Äguila |
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| description | <strong>Introduction:</strong> The need of love plays an important role in the lives of adolescents. The success they integrate their sexuality with, depends on a complex set of factors. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> To characterize sexual and reproductive behaviour of female high school students. <strong><br />Methods:</strong> A descriptive study of a sample comprising 180 female students from the 9th grade in the urban area of Cumanayagua, from September 2007 to June 2008. Variables that were analyzed: whether they kept relationships involving sex at the time of the study, age at onset of the relationships and primary motivations for its initiation, contraceptives use and most commonly used contraceptives and reproductive and obstetric history (abortions, menstrual regulation and delivery .) <strong><br />Results:</strong> 56.1% kept relationships involving sex at the time of the study. The average age of onset of these relationships was between 13 (37.6%) and 14 (43.6%) years old. The main motivation was physical attraction in all age groups with 29.7%. A considerable group experienced unprotected sexual intercourse (57.4%), representing more than half of the total and only 42.6% protect themselves, mainly using condoms. Menstrual regulations were performed in 55.5% of the students as well as pregnancy interruptions through the uterine cavity curettage method in 22.2% of them. 5.6% had had an abortion. <strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> The studied adolescents are developing inappropriate sexual conducts. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d97bc6ae3a6d4486850a472fdc1127172025-01-30T21:28:42ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2010-11-0185332337625Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school studentsPerla Caridad López Hernández0Eneida Bravo Polanco1Carmen Benítez Cabrera2Lisbet Cepero Äguila3University Policlinical “Aracelio Rodríguez Castellón”. Cumanayagua. Cienfuegos.University Policlinical “Aracelio Rodríguez Castellón”. Cumanayagua. Cienfuegos.University Policlinical “Aracelio Rodríguez Castellón”. Cumanayagua. Cienfuegos.University Policlinical “Aracelio Rodríguez Castellón”. Cumanayagua. Cienfuegos.<strong>Introduction:</strong> The need of love plays an important role in the lives of adolescents. The success they integrate their sexuality with, depends on a complex set of factors. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> To characterize sexual and reproductive behaviour of female high school students. <strong><br />Methods:</strong> A descriptive study of a sample comprising 180 female students from the 9th grade in the urban area of Cumanayagua, from September 2007 to June 2008. Variables that were analyzed: whether they kept relationships involving sex at the time of the study, age at onset of the relationships and primary motivations for its initiation, contraceptives use and most commonly used contraceptives and reproductive and obstetric history (abortions, menstrual regulation and delivery .) <strong><br />Results:</strong> 56.1% kept relationships involving sex at the time of the study. The average age of onset of these relationships was between 13 (37.6%) and 14 (43.6%) years old. The main motivation was physical attraction in all age groups with 29.7%. A considerable group experienced unprotected sexual intercourse (57.4%), representing more than half of the total and only 42.6% protect themselves, mainly using condoms. Menstrual regulations were performed in 55.5% of the students as well as pregnancy interruptions through the uterine cavity curettage method in 22.2% of them. 5.6% had had an abortion. <strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> The studied adolescents are developing inappropriate sexual conducts.http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/1091conducta sexualconducta reproductivaadolescenteconducta del adolescentefemenino |
| spellingShingle | Perla Caridad López Hernández Eneida Bravo Polanco Carmen Benítez Cabrera Lisbet Cepero Äguila Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students Medisur conducta sexual conducta reproductiva adolescente conducta del adolescente femenino |
| title | Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students |
| title_full | Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students |
| title_fullStr | Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students |
| title_short | Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students |
| title_sort | characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students |
| topic | conducta sexual conducta reproductiva adolescente conducta del adolescente femenino |
| url | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/1091 |
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