Factors associated with parental attitudes towards condom education for children aged 12-14 years in Myanmar

Name: Su, Myat Lwin, 1992-

LCSH: Condoms -- Burma

LCSH: Teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- Burma

Abstract: Education for the use of condom is teaching how to use condom with actual demonstrations of using condoms; teaching how to negotiate the use of condom; and also teaching the motivation skills to use condom. Condom use is important to prevent HIV, STI and unwanted pregnancy. Therefore, condom education is an important component of sex education. It is globally recommended that condom education should be provided to people at very young age before sexual debut occurs. However, providing condom education for young children has been a highly controversial issue among parents, teachers, health professionals, and the general public. Parents play an important role in providing condom education for children because they themselves are primary sex educators of their children and they can influence and help adolescents to get access to information and education. Moreover, condom education programs cannot be successful if that contradicts with what parents teach at home. Therefore, this study explores the level of parental attitudes and factors associated with parental attitudes towards the provision of condom education for children aged 12-14 years. The study used secondary data from the Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey (2015-2016) and the sample includes mothers and fathers who have at least one adolescent child. The parental attitude is assessed by the question "should the children be taught about condom use to prevent AIDS". The findings illustrate that there was low level of positive attitude towards condom education for young children among the parents. Forty three percent of the parents agreed that condom education should be taught to children. Results from multinomial logistic regression found that fathers were less likely to disagree (OR=0.82; 95%CI=0.68-0.99) and be unsure (OR=0.42; 95%CI=0.30-0.57) than mothers about teaching condom use to 12-14 years old. Similarly, parents who completed higher than secondary education are less likely to be unsure (OR=0.21; 95%CI=0.06-0.74) than uneducated parents. Parents living in moderately poor households are less likely to be unsure compared to the parents living in poorest households (OR=0.61; 95%CI=0.40-0.94). In addition to this, parents who believed in effectiveness of condom are less likely to disagree (OR=0.66; 95%CI=0.53-0.82) and less likely to be unsure (OR=0.11; 95%CI=0.08-0.16) than parents who did not believe in effectiveness of condom. Similarly, parents who have comprehensive knowledge of HIV are less likely to disagree about teaching condom use to 12-14 years old (OR=0.60; 95%CI=0.47-0.78) compared to parents who did not have comprehensive knowledge of HIV. However, parents of Shan ethnicity are more likely to disagree (OR=1.54; 95%CI=1.06-2.23) and be unsure about provision of condom education for children aged 12-14 years old compared to parents from Bamar ethnicity (OR=1.89; 95%CI=1.10-3.24). Based on the findings, parents' education program focusing on effectiveness of condoms and knowledge of HIV should be promoted to increase positive attitude of parents towards condom education for children. Apart from that, awareness raising programs to aware parents about the importance of condom education for young children should be intervened giving priority to the parents in rural areas before implementing condom education programs. IMPLICATION OF THE THESIS. This study is an important contribution to the body of knowledge because not much study is done in this area in Myanmar. In addition to this, policy makers can develop strategies to increase parental support for providing sex education for children based on the findings of this study.

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Name: Dusita Phuengsamran

Role: Thesis Advisors

Name: Voelker, Marc

Role: Thesis Advisors

Created: 2020

Modified: 2568-04-17

Issued: 2025-04-16

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DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Population and Sexual and Reproductive Health

Grantor: Mahidol University

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