dc.description.abstract | Despite the number of sexually active among youths
being high, very few youths engage in safe
sex. They had rather involve themselves in risky be
havior. The overall image of literature is not
encouraging, youths do not use contraceptive to pre
vent themselves from unplanned pregnancies,
Sexually transmitted diseases (STI’s) and Human imm
unodeficiency virus (HIV).There is need
to increase the knowledge and practices of contrace
ptive use among youths for a better sex
reproductive health. The major objective of the res
earch objective was to determine the factors
that influence youths to use contraceptives.
METHODOLOGY
: A case control study done in Kayole and Mukuru.
Analysis was done
using binary logistic regression.
RESULT
S: When it comes to gender, more females 45% likely
to use contraceptives compared
to men, youths who are from religions like Catholic
27% more likely, Protestants 24% more
likely and other Christian denomination are 52% les
s likely to use contraceptives unlike their
Muslim counterparts who are 72% more likely to use
contraceptives. Level of education and use
of alcohol does not have association with the use c
ontraceptives. Youths who have Secondary
are 23% more likely to use contraceptives, College/
University 29% more likely to use
contraceptives, Technical/Vocational are 30% less l
ikely to use contraceptives and others are
50% more likely to use contraceptives. All this wer
e compare to primary school. Youths who
take alcohol are 1% less likely to use contraceptiv
es compared to those who don’t take alcohol.
As well as very few sexually active youths use cont
raceptives. Sexually active are 16% more
likely to use contraceptives.
DISCUSSIO
N: youths don’t use contraceptive use, gender, edu
cation, religion, alcohol and
sexual activity doesn’t seem to have much impact on
their decision. Therefore no association
between gender, education, religion, alcohol & sexu
al activity with contraceptive use on cross
tab. However, on a binary logistic regression gende
r had an association with contraceptive use.
CONCLUSIO
N: Contraceptive practices among youths to prevent
unplanned pregnancies,
sexually transmitted diseases (STI’s) and immunodef
iciency virus is low despite a large number
of youths engaging in sex.
IMPLICATION:
There is need for more research to be done on ways
to bridge the gap among
sexually active youths and contraceptives | en_US |
dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |