Sexual Experiences and Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Schmidt, Elizabeth K.; Dougherty, M; Robek, Natalie; Weaver, Lindy; Darragh, Amy

doi:10.1177/07435584211028225

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“…This could be because youths who believe they are successfully monitored by their parents are more likely to consider their parents’ sexual behavior and social expectations when determining their own likelihood of engaging in intercourse. This reasoning is supported by different other studies [ 56 , 57 ] , associating youth perceptions of parental disapproval with the early onset of sexual debut. UN takes a view of SRH, as one of the most crucial, parts of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda [ 58 ] .…”

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confidence: 77%

Influences of parental monitoring and school connectedness on age at first sexual debut among unmarried female youth in Bedele town, Ethiopia: A survival analysis of timing using accelerated failure time model

Debele

Tsegaye

Gemechu³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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Background The age of first sexual debut among youth continues to attract interest as it marks the start of their exposure to a variety of sexual and reproductive health problems. Parental monitoring (PM) and school connectedness (SC) has been found to have an effect on this problem. Despite this fact, there is a dearth of literature on implications of PM and SC on age at first sexual debut in Ethiopia. Therefore, this paper examined the influences of PM and SC age at first sexual debut among female youth. Methods A retrospective follow-up study was conducted on 470 randomly selected female youth in Bedele town, Oromia regional state, southwest Ethiopia from February 1 to March 30, 2021. The age at first sexual debut was asked in full years for respondents who ever engaged in sexual debut at a time of data collection. Data were entered using Epi-Data version 4.6 and analyzed using Stata version 14. All variables at P-values less than 0.2 in bivariable analysis were exported to multivariable analysis. Multivariable Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) regression analyses using Weibull distribution were used to examine the association of age at first sexual debut with PM and SC at 5% level of significance. Results Overall, 132(28.1%) youths were begun sexual activities of which 79.54% was an early (vaginal penetrative sex before 18 years old). The incidence rate was 15.58/1000 PY with 95% CI of [13.14, 18.47]. The result shows that, female youth start first sexual debut as early as 10 year and mean age was 16.89±2.82. Only 27.97% of those who began sexual debut used contraception during first sex. Multivariable Weibull AFT regression analyses adjusted for different variables showed that high PM (Adjusted Time Ratio (ATR) 1.13: 95%CI; [1.04, 1.21]) and good SC (ATR: 1.14: 95% CI; [1.06, 1.22] significantly delays the age at first sexual debut. Conclusions Overall, four out of every five premarital sexual activities were early sexual debuts. High PM and high SC significantly decrease early sexual debut by delaying the age of sexual initiation. Therefore, family and school involvement focused on PM and SC of the youth is recommended as an important mechanism for preventing youths’ risky sexual behaviour, including early sexual debut.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Influences of parental monitoring and school connectedness on age at first sexual debut among unmarried female youth in Bedele town, Ethiopia: A survival analysis of timing using accelerated failure time model

Debele

Tsegaye

Gemechu³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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“…To inform this process, research focused on understanding the experiences, perspectives, and current comprehension of sexual health information is needed. 12,38 Engaging diverse groups of individuals with disabilities as collaborators in program design would help ensure that programs are fully accessible and meet the unique needs of students with disabilities. Additionally including positive representations of students with disabilities in curricula will help students relate to the material and reduce feelings ofexclusion.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is vital that this includes education about healthy and respectful relationships, presented in a way that meets the learning needs of youth with disabilities. To inform this process, research focused on understanding the experiences, perspectives, and current comprehension of sexual health information is needed 12,38 . Engaging diverse groups of individuals with disabilities as collaborators in program design would help ensure that programs are fully accessible and meet the unique needs of students with disabilities.…”

Section: Implications For School Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy and Respectful Relationship Education: Differences by Disability Status and Associations With Sexual Abuse

Newby-Kew

Horner‐Johnson

2023

Journal of School Health

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BACKGROUND: Education about healthy and respectful relationships (HRR) is a key component of comprehensive sexual health curricula and is supposed to be universally provided in Oregon. This study: (1) assesses the extent to which high school students with disabilities received HRR education, and (2) examines associations between HRR education and experiences of sexual abuse. METHODS:Using data from the 2019 Oregon Healthy Teens survey, we conducted multivariable Poisson regression to compare 11th grade students with and without disabilities on self-reported receipt of school based HRR instruction (N = 10,992), and to measure associations between HRR education and sexual abuse experiences among teens with (N = 3736) and without (N = 7256) disabilities. RESULTS:Students with disabilities were 41% more likely than students without disabilities to say they had never been taught in school about HRR (adjusted prevalence ratio 1.41, 95% confidence interval: 1.25-156). Experiences of sexual abuse victimization were more common for all students who did not receive HRR education (34.1% vs 21.6% among students with disabilities; 16.2% vs 7.5% among students without disabilities). CONCLUSIONS:Students with disabilities are less likely to have received school-based HRR education than their peers without disabilities. Providing inclusive HRR education may help reduce risk of sexual abuse and is essential for addressing health disparities affecting youth with disabilities.

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Sexuality and Relationship Education Programmes for People with Intellectual Disability: Innovations and Challenges

Frawley

David

O’Shea

et al. 2023

American Journal of Sexuality Education

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Sexual Experiences and Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Cited by 4 publications

References 58 publications

Influences of parental monitoring and school connectedness on age at first sexual debut among unmarried female youth in Bedele town, Ethiopia: A survival analysis of timing using accelerated failure time model

Influences of parental monitoring and school connectedness on age at first sexual debut among unmarried female youth in Bedele town, Ethiopia: A survival analysis of timing using accelerated failure time model

Healthy and Respectful Relationship Education: Differences by Disability Status and Associations With Sexual Abuse

Sexuality and Relationship Education Programmes for People with Intellectual Disability: Innovations and Challenges

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