OBJECTIVES Policy and programmatic efforts promoting sexual abstinence until marriage have increased, but it is unclear whether establishing such behavior as normative is a realistic public health goal. This study examined the proportion of individuals in various cohorts who had had premarital sex (defined as either having had vaginal intercourse before first marrying or ever having had interco...

BACKGROUND In recent years, more adolescents are engaging in premarital sex in China. However, only a limited number of studies have explored out-of-school youth's sexual attitudes and behaviors, critical for prevention intervention development. METHODS Using data from the baseline survey of a comprehensive sex education program that was conducted in a suburb of Shanghai in 2000-2002, this st...

This study aims to determine the risk factors that influence premarital sex behavior among adolescents. The method used is a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines by searching for articles in Pubmed, Scopus, ScienceDirect and Proquest databases. results showed parental supervision had significant indirect relationship with sexual of adolescents through attitudes about sex, sexuality int...

CONTEXT Premarital sexual activity is thought to be rising in Vietnam. However, there is little evidence documenting such an increase, and it is unknown whether levels of premarital sex differ between northern and southern Vietnam and whether premarital sex occurs primarily with a future spouse. METHODS Surveys conducted in northern Vietnam (Red River Delta) and southern Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh ...

Youths in Bolgatanga municipality in the Upper East Region in the rural north of Ghana suffer health and social problems that are caused by their premarital and unsafe sexual behaviour. This study provides more knowledge of and insight into the youths' conceptions, motives and practices concerning premarital sex in the specific cultural and social context of Bolgatanga municipality. The results...

INTRODUCTION Several studies in Sub- Saharan Africa have documented high and increasing premarital sexual activities among adolescents. Younger people face social, peer and cultural pressure to engage in premarital sex. As a result, significant numbers of adolescents are involved in sexual activities at an early age which exposes them to the risk of unintended pregnancy, early marriage, abortio...

Sexual health (SH) and sexual behavior of young people have become a growing public concern. But few studies have been conducted to investigate the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of this phenomenon. Purpose: To understand college students’ sexual knowledge (SK), sexual attitudes (SA), sexual desire (SD) and sexual behavior (SB). Methods: A self-reported questionnaire survey on SK, SA, S...

Premarital sexual behavior among teenagers is getting higher. The low level of moral education and failure in the division roles, functions, duties family triggers adolescents to behave freely even violate religious social norms. This research was conducted look at description development factors that cause have premarital sex. study uses a qualitative method with phenomenological design purpos...

This study aims to determine the factors that influence premarital sexual behavior in adolescents and of these on adolescent Alok District Bola District. The method used is quantitative with a cross-sectional approach 104 determined proportionally by random sampling. Data analysis simple logistic regression test. results showed there was significant relationship between knowledge (p = 0.021; OR...

Sex is a universally developmental process in any society throughout the world. Recently, the numbers of reported cases of social problem specifically related to sexuality issues among adolescent keep on increasing yearly. In Malaysian context, issue of premarital sex become a growing public concern especially with the alarming of social issue problems. Premarital sex is considered as sexual in...