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Does peers’ sexual behaviors affect adolescents’ sexual behaviors?

Author(s) -

Sunil Kumar Joshi

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

journal of institute of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1993-2987

pISSN - 1993-2979

DOI - 10.3126/joim.v27i2.401

Subject(s) - reproductive health , affect (linguistics) , medicine , sexual behavior , descriptive research , descriptive statistics , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , demography , environmental health , psychology , population , statistics , mathematics , communication , sociology

This study is aimed to determine female adolescents’ reproductive and sexual health behaviors in order to promote healthy reproductive behaviors. A descriptive correlation design was used to identify the main predictor of female adolescents’ reproductive and sexual health behaviors. Four hundred samples were selected from urban government schools of Lalitpur; findings revealed that more then half of respondents (56%) felt very comfortable to communicate with their peer than others. There were statistically significant relationships between female adolescents’ with their peers’ reproductive and sexual health behaviors (r = 0.646; p = Journal of Institute of Medicine Vol.27(2) 2005

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