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Abstract
Parents play an essential role in the betterment of adolescents’ lives through communicating various issues particularly sexual and reproductive health matters. They have a unique role in influencing the decisions and behav-iors of their adolescent children related to sexual and reproductive health issues based on their willingness to communicate on such topics.
An increased incidence of sexually transmitted disease (STD) including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in adolescents in developing and developed countries has led researchers to examine factors that influence young people’s sexual behaviors. Improving parent-adolescent communication at all community level is important and it is a current agenda to all concerned bodies in all country to promote healthy sexual behaviors of adolescents. The world health organization (WHO) report on the analysis of adolescents SRH literature from different parts of the world informs that this concern has been largely driven by the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among young people.
Though, sexual and reproductive health communication between parent and adolescent is a most important way of conveying sexual values and knowledge, discussions on sexual and reproductive health issues particularly sex-related matters are unacceptable and shame in most African countries and parents believed that advising adolescents about sex-related issues and updating them how to abstain would make the adolescents sexually active.
Most youth-friendly services and health care providers in Ethiopia are not well prepared in addressing adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health desires. Hence, parents’ communication with their children about SRH issues is im-portant to enhance adolescents’ awareness and to reduce their risky sexual be-haviors. Parents’ low level of knowledge about sexual and reproductive health issues makes open discussions with their children challenging. Nevertheless, as different studies revealed that home is the preliminary place to educate adoles-cents about SRH issues, and it is the first social environment for them.
This study was conducted on 200 subjects at Menoufia University Hospi-tal, Egypt (120 adolescences) and Fort Hamilton high school and Long Island University, New York, USA (80 adolescences), during the period from January 2019 till February 2020, to assess parent-adolescent communication about sex-ual and reproductive health.
Inclusion criteria: Subjects of both sexes, Subjects aging from 15 to 25 years and Never married.
Exclusion criteria: Married couples and Subject aging more than 25 years old.