Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Parent-child communication about sexual issues in Zambia: a cross sectional study of adolescent girls and their parents
Originally published 2020-07-16 · BMC Public Health
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s12889-020-09218-y ↗
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Where do parents' and teenagers' descriptions of difficult conversations agree or differ?
Including both generations makes the perspectives behind a report of communication explicit.
Who was studied?
Adolescent girls and their parents in Zambia reporting on sexual-health conversations
Age / stage: Adolescence
Read with three questions
- Where do parents' and teenagers' descriptions of difficult conversations agree or differ?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (adolescent girls and their parents in Zambia reporting on sexual-health conversations) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
Sampling participants through a study with a randomized component does not randomize what parents and adolescent girls discuss. Their cross-sectional accounts may also differ by informant.
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Katja Jezkova Isaksen; Patrick Musonda; Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy (2020). Parent-child communication about sexual issues in Zambia: a cross sectional study of adolescent girls and their parents BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09218-y
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