Inicio de relaciones sexuales y factores asociados en adolescentes escolarizados de Nulti, Paccha y Challuabamba, 2018

Abstract

Adolescent sexuality maintains repressed aspects; based on myths, taboos, prohibitions and silences, such as the idea that educating in sexuality means encouraging children to be "sexually active", with consequent risk behaviors that affect the life project and their Sexual and Reproductive Health. In the present study, the prevalence and factors associated with the initiation of sexual intercourse were determined in adolescents aged 15 to 19 years of high school, from the parishes of Nulti, Paccha and the community of Challuabamba, 2018. A quantitative cross-sectional study was carried out. Finite universe of 250 students. It was found that 31.2% of adolescents have begun their sexual coital life, being in adolescence average (57.69%) the beginning stage. 32.5% (n = 78) does not use contraceptive methods. An association was found at the beginning of premature sexual relations, the parents' permissiveness to have a love (p = 0.0126), the use of contraceptive methods (p = 0.00) and the lack of communication in sexuality (p = 0.0032).