Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in a State Senior High School in East Java, Indonesia
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-072-5_9How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- adolescent; reproductive health; sexual behavior; HIV; AIDS
- Abstract
Some adolescents engage in sexually risky behavior. Sexual risk behavior is unprotected sexual contact with partners who are possible HIV and AIDS carriers. This study aimed to examine sexual risk behavior among high school students. This study was a cross-sectional study. Respondents of this study were 81 adolescence who were chosen by a simple random sampling technique. The variable of this study was sexual risk behavior, age, gender, experience with health reproductive information, sources of information, sexual experience, relations status, and knowledge. Data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed using percentage description of the proportion and correlational test. The result of this study was 17.3% of the respondents had sexual risk behavior. All of them were sexually active, 28% had sexual intercourse, 28% had anal sex, and 75% do not use condoms. Gender, Information, and source information were significantly associated with sexual risk behavior. Schools have to work with health workers to plan the provision of health education to students to prevent risky sexual behavior and also about sexually transmitted diseases.
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TY - CONF AU - Yhenti Widjayanti AU - Angelia Arnanda AU - Veronica silalahi PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/23 TI - Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in a State Senior High School in East Java, Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sports Science and Health (ICSSH 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 70 EP - 78 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-072-5_9 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-072-5_9 ID - Widjayanti2022 ER -