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The Effect Of Sexuality Education Among Household And Adolescents’ Risky Sexual Behaviour
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The failures of sex education
prompted wrong signal which is the risky behaviour exhibited both the
household women and the adolescence which affect their reproductive
system later in life. Apart from unwanted pregnancy resulting from
unprotected sexual intercourse as an under-age parents, as a result of
semi-formal or lack of sex education through the protracted stage of any
of the deadly attracted diseases among the subject in question which
cannot be overemphasized due to complete lack of treatment to expunge
all forms of diseases in the body of the adolescence.
However, having
assessed the whole lots of predicaments experienced by adolescence
within the community of the great city of Ibadan, it is worth of
necessity to educate the people around the sine through the process of
enlightened the youth with the great borden in me to share this core
values of life which triggered my burning desire to embark on this theme
to be studied.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
The main purpose of
this study is to examine the effect of sexuality education on risky
sexual behaviour among households and adolescents in secondary schools.
This research work is being carried out in order to accomplish the
following specific objectives. These include:
· To find out the types and the risky sexual behaviour among households and secondary school adolescents in Ibadan.
· To determine the level of sexual abstinence among adolescents in secondary schools.
· To investigate if sexuality education has any significant impact to households and adolescents in secondary schools.
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To access if there would be any significant gender difference among
households and adolescents risky sexual behaviour in Ibadan.
1.4 Significance of the study
This
study will shed more light on the expected benefits of sexuality
education on risky sexual behaviour among adolescents and household in
Ibadan north local government area.
1. It helps the adolescence
and the household women to avoid negative health consequences by
protecting themselves against sexually risky behaviour in the society.
2.
It aids the community to use the weapon of communication about
sexuality on sexual health issues to the adolescence and household women
as one of the core values which can uphold the inheritance of the
community through these agents such as parents, friends, intimate
partners and social media like radio, television etc about sexuality.
3.
Comprehensive sexual health education teaches abstinence as the only
100 percent effective method of preventing HIV Aids, STIs, and
unintended pregnancy and as a valid choice which everyone has the right
choice to make among the adolescences.
4. This study is focusing
on a comprehensive sexual health education that teaches not only the
basics of puberty and development of the students, but also instils in
young people that they have the right to decide on what behaviours they
should engage in and to say no to unwanted risky sexual activity and
finally;
5. The public health authorities, social workers and
policy makers would greatly benefit from this study which would stands
out as a major pointer for effective control and strategies for tackling
sexually transmitted diseases.
1.5 Scope of the study
The
study will investigate the effect of sexuality education on risky sexual
behaviour among adolescents and households in Ibadan north local
government area of Oyo state. The study will be limited to the range of
twenty (20) selected households’ women and ninety (100) in- school
adolescents within (S.S. 1-3) in the study area.
1.6 Operational Definition of Terms
The following terms was defined operationally as were used in the study:
Sexuality
education: It refers to the knowledge of participants with regard to
sexual activities including safe and protected sexual intercourse,
knowledge of STDs, and unprotected sexual intercourse.
Household: This refers to every adult who is married either man or woman that merit participation in this study.
Risky
Sexual Behaviour: risky sexual behaviour refers to the kind of
behaviour that can result in negative consequences for a person's health
or a negative effect arising from one’s attitude towards sexual
activities such risky behaviours include alcohol consumption (heavy
drinking), smoking, illegal drug use, unsafe sexual practices, multiple
sex partner, illegal behaviours and dangerous driving.
Adolescents: Refers to students between the ages ranges of 13 years old to 19 years old in secondary schools.
Gender: Refers tomasculinity and femininity. It is dichotomized into male and female sex.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated the effect of sexuality education among household and adolescents’ risky sexual behaviour in Ibadan north local government area of Oyo State. It was discovered from real life observation and past research works done by various scholars that sex education was not welled managed among parents, care givers, the school system and the community at large. The principal factor of these has led to an immoral behaviour which the results firmly negative to the norms of the s ... Continue reading---
