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Table 3 Associations of parental factors with sexual risk behaviours among Legehida high school adolescents, Northeast Ethiopia, 2016 (n = 262)

From: Parenting perspective on the psychosocial correlates of adolescent sexual and reproductive health behavior among high school adolescents in Ethiopia

Variables

Sexual risk behaviours

COR (95% CI)

†AOR (95%CI)

Yes

No

Parent─adolescent relationship quality

 High

54 (44.3%)

68 (55.7%)

0.73 (0.32, 0.95)

0.53 (0.45, 0.63)*

 Low

73 (52.1%)

67 (47.9%)

1.00

1.00

Parenting style

 Authoritarian

54 (38.0%)

88 (62.0%)

1.00

1.00

 Neglectful

14 (70.0%)

6 (30.0%)

0.26 (0.09, 1.19)

0.44 (0.27, 1.32)

 Permissive

25 (78.1%)

7 (21.9%)

0.17 (0.01, 1.04)

0.32 (0.19, 1.18)

 Authoritative

34 (50.0%)

34 (50.0%)

0.65 (0.58–0.89)

0.74 (0.61–0.92)*

Parental monitoring

 Yes

63 (44.1%)

80 (55.9%)

0.68 (0.33, 1.46)

0.81 (0.51, 1.28)

 No

64 (53.8%)

55 (46.2%)

1.00

1.00

Parent─adolescent SRH communication

 Yes

38 (37.6%)

63 (62.4%)

0.49 (0.25, 0.99)

0.73 (0.50, 1.07)

 No

89 (55.3%)

72 (44.7%)

1.00

1.00

Perception on parental SRH knowledge

 Poor

44 (64.7%)

24 (35.3%)

3.17 (1.65, 4.37)

2.97 (1.51, 4.25)*

 Know to some extent

72 (43.9%)

92 (56.1%)

1.35 (1.14, 6.23)

3.00 (1.43, 5.55)*

 Know very well

11 (36.7%)

19 (63.3%)

1.00

1.00

Adolescents behavioral beliefs of SRH issues

 Good

61 (57.5%)

45 (42.5%)

1.00

1.00

 Poor

66 (42.3%)

90 (57.7%)

1.85 (1.11, 2.48)

1.37 (1.79, 2.18)*

  1. Key: COR Crude odds ratio, AOR Adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval; †Adjusted for all variables in the table and additionally for the socio demographic variables; *p-value < 0.05