| Title |
Approaches to Regulating Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Ghana: Qualitative Evidence from Somanya and Adidome
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Archives of Sexual Behavior, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10508-018-1161-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Susan Langmagne, Eric Y. Tenkorang, Emmanuel Asampong, Joseph Osafo, Jeffrey Bart Bingenheimer |
| Abstract |
This article examines perceptions of why HIV infection is severe among adolescents in Somanya and less so in Adidome-two seemingly similar communities in Ghana-through analysis of the social control measures employed by these communities to regulate adolescent sexual initiation. Using focus group discussions with parents and caregivers of adolescent children, the study found that parents in Somanya and Adidome used different regulatory mechanisms to influence adolescent sexual initiation. While parents in Somanya relied largely on parental monitoring, parents in Adidome depended more on a combination of neighborhood monitoring and community barriers (informal rules) to control adolescent sexual onset. The study findings showed that contextual factors (socioeconomic and cultural) shaped the social realities of people in these two communities accounting for the differences in HIV prevalence. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 72 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 14% |
| Researcher | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Librarian | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 13% |
| Unknown | 26 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 13 | 18% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 8% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Unknown | 33 | 46% |
Attention Score in Context
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#5,814,924
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#37
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