Temores parentales frente a la sexualidad de sus hijos/as con discapacidad intelectual

Abstract

This research work aims to address the fears that parents have about the sexuality of their children with moderate and severe intellectual disability, the representative sample was 162 parents of children and adolescents with moderate and severe intellectual disability in ages between 6 and 16 years old, from specialized education tax institutions of the Cuenca canton during the 2016-2017 school year. This study has a non-experimental, cross-sectional exploratory nature, with a quantitative approach of descriptive statistics. The data collection was carried out through a structured questionnaire-type opinion survey, with the objective of identifying and describing variables. The objective of this research was to identify and describe the fears of parents against sexuality, as well as to determine in which dimension of sexuality they present themselves. For the tabulation and coding of the data, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM SPSS 23) was used. The obtained results indicate that fathers and mothers present greater fear in the social dimension (71.60%), specifically 82.71% fear that their children can not communicate situations of sexual abuse, while 82.09% of the parents coincide in the fear that their children cannot defend themselves against sexual abuse. In the biological dimension, fears are related to the ability to reproduce 23.97%, while in the psychological dimension fears are associated with the expression and control of their sexual behaviors.