Title:
HOME-RELATED FACTORS, UNPROTECTED SEX AND ACTIVITIES WITH MULTIPLE SEXUAL PARTNERS AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN UNIVERSITIES IN EDO STATE, NIGERIA

Authors:
AREWAH, Afe Agbonghaomon Ph.D and AKINLOSOTU, Nathaniel Toyosi, Nigeria

Abstract:
This study investigated the extent to which home-related factors including parents’ economic status, parents’ educational status, and family type predict variations in unprotected sexual activities and multiple sexual activities among adolescents in universities in Edo State, Nigeria. Two research questions and hypotheses were raised and tested in the study. The correlational design based on survey method was adopted for the study. The population of this study consisted of all the 73,439 regular undergraduate students in universities in Edo State. A sample size of two thousand nine hundred and thirty eight (2,938) undergraduate students representing 4% of the population was drawn from universities covered in the study. The scale titled: Sexual Risk Survey (SRS) developed by Turchik (2007) was adapted in the study. The Cronbach alpha of 0.71 and 0.78 for unprotected sex and multiple sexual activities was obtained respectively. Data collected were analyzed with binary logistic regression (BLR) as the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The results showed that home-related factors (parents’ economic status, educational status, and family type) predicted involvement in unprotected sexual activities and multiple sexual activities among the adolescents in universities in Edo State (p<0.05). It was recommended among others that practising counsellors, trainee counsellors and counsellor educators have roles to play in providing some of their relevant services –information, orientation and counselling services to male and female university undergraduates in Edo State, Nigeria