Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health in rural Tanzania: Implications for young people's sexual health interventions
Originally published 2010-05-12 · Reproductive Health
BMC · DOI 10.1186/1742-4755-7-6 ↗
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What conversational barriers are documented in the local family setting?
A topic-specific study in rural Tanzania situates family openness in its social and cultural context.
Who was studied?
Young people and families in rural Tanzania discussing sexual and reproductive health
Age / stage: Adolescence
Read with three questions
- What conversational barriers are documented in the local family setting?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (young people and families in rural Tanzania discussing sexual and reproductive health) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
The family communication data concern rural Tanzania and a specific health topic. Barriers reported there should not be assumed to characterize all conversations in all households.
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Joyce Wamoyi; Angela Fenwick; Mark Urassa; Basia Zaba; William Stones (2010). Parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health in rural Tanzania: Implications for young people's sexual health interventions Reproductive Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-7-6
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