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- Title
Anneler ve Adolesan Çocukları Arasında Cinsellik Konusunda İletişim: Annelerin Bakış Açısı.
- Authors
AKIN, Belgin; EGE, Emel; ARIKAN, Çiğdem; BURSA, Dane; DEMİRÖREN, Nesime
- Abstract
Objective: The aim of the study is to examine the communication about sexuality between mothers and their adolescent children according to the view of mothers. Methods: This is a descriptive study. The study was carried out in three primary health care centers in a city where is the Central Anatolia. The study group was 273 women who applied to the centers for using services and have boys and girls between ages 14-17. A questionnaire that questions the socio-demographic characteristics of mothers and their talking about sexual issues with their children and frequency of talking and talking subjects was used to collect data. The data were collected by researchers with face-to-face interview in centers. Logistic regression analyze was used for statistical analyses. Results: It was find out that there was a limited sexual communication between mothers and their children, they were not very comfortable in communication about sexual issues and the most frequent talking topics were about growing and most infrequent ones were about sexual intercourse. The most important factors for not talking about sexual issues were young age of mothers, having boy, living in extended family, low level of socioeconomic status and low level of education of their own and husband, thinking that sexual education was not necessary and perceived their sexual knowledge was not sufficient. Conclusions: It seems important that nurses should evaluate the view of the parents about sexuality and follow-up the families and adolescents who are in risk groups closer.
- Subjects
TURKEY; COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MOTHER-child relationship; MOTHERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; HUMAN sexuality; LOGISTIC regression analysis
- Publication
Turkish Journal of Research & Development in Nursing / Hemşirelikte Araştırma Geliştirme Dergisi, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 2, p39
- ISSN
1307-9557
- Publication type
Article