Assessment of Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues among Mizan Secondary and Preparatory School Students with Parents, Mizan Town, Ethiopia, 2016

Abstract

Sexual and reproductive health is at the base of people's living and wellbeing, the ability to develop in a supportive environment and grow into sexually responsive and responsible adults, the ability to enjoy one's sexuality without harming or damaging oneself or one's partner, are among the unique attributes that define us as human. Many of the typical changes that occur during adolescence tend to interfere with the effectiveness and amount of interaction between parent and child. The objective of the study is to assess communication on sexual and reproductive health issues among Mizan secondary and preparatory school students with parents. Institution based cross sectional quantitative study design was conducted among Mizan secondary and preparatory school students with sample size of 356 and total population of 3436 from April, 20/4/2016 to April, 25/4/2016. The data was collected by using structured self-administered questionnaires. After the data was collected it was processed and analyzed manually by the help scientific calculator. The response rate was 100%. From the total of three hundred fifty six respondents 196(55.1%) of them were females. One hundred three 103(28.9%) of respondents were discussed at least one SRH issue with parents for the last 12 month of the study period, from those 58(56.3%) of them were females and 45(43.7%) of them were males. but majority 253(71.1%) of them didn't discussed about SRH issues with their parents. This study shows that student-parent communication on SRH issues is low, only less than one-third of the students were communication SRH. The risk for SRH problems need urgent and continues intervention as such it is necessary to equip and educate parents and students on different sexual and reproductive health issues. Therefore; there should be give school base sex education about SRH and youth friendly health service for youth and adolescents at different level of health care.

Adolescents’ Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters with Their Parents and Associated Factors among Secondary and Preparatory School Students in Ambo Town, Oromia, Ethiopia

“…The current study found that 37.6% of respondents had discussed at least two SRH issues with their parents in the last 12 months. This finding was in line with studies conducted in Debre Markos (36.9%) [ 19 ], Addis Ababa, Ayer Tena high school [ 21 ], and Dire Dawa town (37%) [ 34 ] but higher than a study done in Mizan (28.9%) [ 17 ] and less than a study done at Alamata, northern Ethiopia (68.2%) [ 36 ], of which the respondents had discussed at least two SRH issue with their parents.…”

Parent-adolescent communication about Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues and Associated Factors among Mothers in Wogdie District, North Ethiopia

“…Three hundred twelve (51.7%) of mothers were had family size of 1-3 members. (21,24,31,32), But this nding higher than studies conducted in Awabel (25.3%) and Mizan (28.9%) this might due to time variation and socio demographic difference like in Awabel the magnitude of urban population was 23.9% which is lower than the study area and in Mizan about 57.3% of populations were unable to read and write which is higher than the study area (33,34). This nding is lower than stuies conducted in Yirgalem (59.1%), Debre-markos (36.9%), Dire-dawa (37%), Hawassa (61%), South Africa (57%), Ghana (72.8%) and Mynamar (62%) this might due to study area difference (these studies conducted at institution but this study was community based), lower illiteracy rate (Debre-markos 20.5%, Yirgalem 7.4%, and Dire-dawa 20.5% and Myanmar 6.3%) and more urbanized (Mekelle 84.9%, Hawassa 73.2%) (4,5,7,20,23,35,36).…”

Parent-young communication on sexual and reproductive health issues and its association with sex and perceptions of young people in Ethiopia, 2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…All included articles were cross-sectional studies and the minimum and the maximum sample size was 262 and 2075 participants in a study conducted in Shambo and Nekemte town, Oromia respectively [ 43 , 46 ]. A total of 16,721 young and/or parents had young were included and nearly half (48.28%) of the studies were from both preparatory and high school students [ 10 , 30 , 36 , 38 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 45 , 47 – 52 ] and six of them were community based [ 11 , 28 , 43 , 46 , 53 , 54 ] (Table 1 ).…”

“…The effect of sex on parent-young communication on sexual and reproductive health issues was estimated by using 11 articles. From those, only one of them was negatively significant [ 36 ], three of them were not significant [ 29 , 37 , 38 ] and the rest were positively significant [ 10 , 27 , 28 , 35 , 41 , 47 , 48 ]. Using the random effect model, the pooled odds of parent-young communication on sexual and reproductive health issue among females was 1.6 times high as compared to males [AOR = 1.62, 95% CI: (1.12, 2.34)] (I 2 = 90.5%, P value = 0.000) (Fig.…”

“…Parent-young communication on sexual and reproductive health issues was measured in two ways. Thirteen articles used as having talked about at least one [ 11 , 28 , 30 , 32 , 34 , 36 , 38 , 41 – 46 ] and the rest 16 articles were used at least two [ 10 , 27 , 29 , 31 , 33 , 35 , 37 , 39 , 47 – 54 ] of the following sexual and reproductive health related topics with their parents with in the past 6 months: a) body change during puberty, b) menstruation, c) abstinence, d) condom use and where to get condom, f) relationship with opposite sex, g) STI including HIV/AIDS, h) family planning, i) abortion, j) unplanned pregnancy and k) sexual organs.…”