- Title
- Factors responsible for sex practice, STIs and non-contraceptive use among female adolescents: a case study of an Eastern Cape institute, South Africa
- Creator
- Fagbamila, Tolulope Odunola
- Subject
- Sexually transmitted diseases -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape.
- Subject
- Teenage pregnancy -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Abused teenagers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 2014-11
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29021
- Identifier
- vital:76465
- Description
- In spite of the number of studies that have been carried out on the factors responsible for sex practice and non-contraceptive use among the female adolescents, very little impact has been felt on female adolescents‟ sexual behaviour. This is seen from a very high record of unintended pregnancy rates, STIs and illegal abortion among them. An initial assumption that adolescents always try not to get pregnant since most of the pregnancies are unplanned but reverse is the case in this era. What are the responsible factors to this social challenge? The researcher wanted to know the underlying epidemiological factors that are responsible for the early sexual behaviour and non-contraceptive use among the female adolescents using descriptive statistics and two-way ANOVA. Descriptive statistics describe the basic features of the data in a study and provide simple summaries about the sample and the measures. They also form the basis of virtually every quantitative analysis of data together with simple graphic summaries. A Two-way ANOVA is used to compare the effect of multiple levels of two factors with multiple observations at each level. However, it is expected that the outcome of the research would help to generate information that will assist in identifying and introducing strategies to reduce adolescent pregnancy rates, sexually transmitted infections and to encourage greater levels of contraceptive measures usage among the female adolescents. Research findings were that more than half of the female adolescents were extremely poor. Majority of the young female adolescents were being taken care of by single parents, their mothers only. Nevertheless, the level of contraceptive measures unawareness among the female adolescents decreased as their academic performance increased. Hence, the highly contacted sexually transmitted infection among the middle aged female adolescents was HIV/AIDS 4,5 percent while the highly contacted sexually transmitted infection among the adult female adolescent was syphilis 7.2 percent. The main factor attributed to factor responsible for their sex practice was experimentation followed by family status. By “strongly agree” opinion rating, poverty was rated as the main factor responsible for sex practice, STIs and non-contraceptive use among female adolescents. Among the factors associated with sexually transmitted infections, poverty was also rated the main factor. Female adolescent income source had no effect on their academic performance, be it parents, guardian, grants, NGO or friends. Sex practice had an effect on female adolescents academic performance. Nevertheless, adolescent income source and contraceptive category/method never had effect on poverty opinion, as a factor responsible for sex practice, STIs and non-contraceptive use among female adolescents while contraceptive awareness had a significant effect on poverty opinion, as STIs risk factors. However, further studies will be carried out later in future using one way Analysis of Variance to study each of the factor effects on the dependent variables.
- Description
- Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science and Agriculture, 2014
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (xi, 121 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science and Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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