Influencia de la funcionalidad familiar en el inicio de las relaciones sexuales en adolescentes de la parroquia San José de Raranga, Sigsig 2015

Abstract

Background: The early debut of sexual relationship exposes teens to negative events can affect their sexual and reproductive health. Family dysfunction has been shown to be a factor related to early onset of sexual intercourse. Objective: To determine the influence of family functionality for the initiation of sexual intercourse among adolescent from San Jose de Raranga, Sigsig 2015. Materials and Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional and analytical study on 220 adolescent students. The perception test was used to evaluate the degree of family functionality, which consists of 14 propositions and 7 categories: cohesion, harmony, communication, affection, adaptability, role, and permeability. The scores are obtained by adding up the items and considered: From 70 to 42 functional family, from 42 to 14 dysfunctional family (FF-SIL). Bivariate analysis for the initiation of sexual relationship was applied. Results: The 25% of studied adolescents referred debut of sexual relations. Only 8,2% of adolescents had a functional family. It was determined that family functioning is associated with the onset of sex (χ2= 3,953, p=0,047). Adolescents with nonfunctional families had 6,2 times higher risk for the onset of sexual relations, also a significant risk was observed in males and late adolescence. Conclusions: This study shows that non-functional family determines a risk for the early debut of sexual relations, therefore must ensure policies that allow the maintenance of adequate family structure as well as studies to determine the factors associated with dysfunctional families