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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sexual risk behavior and health consequences among adolescents in Banepa Municipality, Kavrepalanchowk
  name:
    name part: Manandhar, Pratima.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    date issued: c2015
    issuance: monographic
  physical description:
    extent: viii, 84p.
  abstract: SUMMARY: Human sexuality plays a major role in everyone's life, regardless, whether we are young or old, man or woman, Nepalese or American, it is an integral part of what we do and who we are. The study "Sexual Risk Behavior and Health Consequences among Adolescents in Banepa Municipality, Kavrepalanchowk" aims to explore the common risky sexual practice of adolescents and the health consequences faced by them. Descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in identifying the risky sexual behavior of unmarried adolescents studying in 7 different higher secondary level in Banepa municipality. Cluster sampling technique for the selection of study area and Simple random sampling for the selection of study unit was adopted. The study was carried upon the 270 randomly selected adolescents who were properly defined the terms and condition of research before administering Self -Administered Questionnaire. Sex ratio of 0.92(male/female) was found with 48.1% male and 51.9% female. Majority of respondents, 91.5% were from Banepa Municipality, Kavrepalanchok. The association between involvement in any form of sexual activity with demographic factors like gender, age of respondents and educational level was found statistically significant with p value 0.000, 0.035 and 0.018 respectively. Majority of the respondents in this study, 93.3% had access to internet and 66.75 of respondents used the means of communication for sexual information. Percentage of respondents having knowledge on sexual and reproductive health was significantly high. This study examined sexual risk behavior of adolescents that showed wide gap in the sector of knowledge and practice of sexual behavior. Although majority of respondents 64% had idea regarding contraceptives only 44% used it at the time of first sexual intercourse. This study shows adolescents were mostly involved in sexual activities due to watching porn movies. The findings indicate that there is an alarming level of sexually risk behavior a…
  note: Thesis Report.
  subject:
    topic: Sexual risk behavior
  subject:
    topic: Health consequences
  subject:
    topic: Adolescents
  classification: THS-00401
  identifier: http://nhrc.gov.np/contact/
  record info:
    record change date: 20220906184651.0