Effects of parenting practices on sexual risk-taking among young people in Cameroon

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Synopsis of extant literature on the association between parenting practices and sexual behavior of young people in sub-Saharan African societies

Outcomes by parenting sub-constructs	Nature of the association
	Protective association	Deleterious association	No association
PARENT–CHILD CONNECTEDNESS
Parental presence
(9 cross-sectional studies and 0 longitudinal study)
Having had sex in the last 12 months			14^a,;20^a,
Ever had sex	13^{a,, x}; 19^a,; 16 ^{a,*, x}; 18^{a, §}	17^{a,§, x}
Secondary sexual abstinence	16 ^{a,*, y}		12 ^a,§
Life time number of sexual partners			17^a,§
Had > 1 partner in the last 3 months			12^a,§ _; 17^a,§
Ever had an unwanted pregnancy	13^{a,*, x}
Having had sex in the last 4 weeks	13^{a,*, x}
Sexual initiation by age 17	15^a,§
Multi-statements scale including statements related to
support, love, care and quality of the relationships
(3 cross-sectional studies and 0 longitudinal study)
Ever had sex	22^a,§		21^a,§
Life time number of sexual partners			21^a,§
Had > 1 partner in the last 3 months			21^a,§
Premarital sexual intercourse	23^a,§
PARENTAL MONITORING
(3 cross-sectional studies – 2 with the same source of data −
and 0 longitudinal study)
Having had sex in the last 12 months	20^a,; 13^a,
Premarital intercourse	23^a,§
PARENT–CHILD COMMUNICATION ON SEXUAL ISSUES
(3 cross-sectional studies and 1 longitudinal study)
Having had sex in the last 12 months		14^a,*
Premarital intercourse		23^a,§
Sexual initiation in early adolescence			28^b,*
Timing of sexual initiation	26^a,*,x
Regular condom use	27^a,§

Notes: a: Cross-sectional study.
b: Longitudinal study.
*: Analyses based on a sample of adolescents (aged 19 years or younger).
§: Analyses based on a sample of adolescents and young people.
x: Effects for females.
y: Effects for males.
Our review is restricted to peer-reviewed publications involving parenting practices as main explanatory variables; no association means that no statistical difference was found.

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