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Table 2 Conversations with parents and desire to know more

From: Relationships, love and sexuality: what the Filipino teens think and feel

TOPICS

Talked to parents "quite a lot" or "a lot" *

Want to know more†

 

Males

Females

 

Males

Females

 
 

n (%)‡

n (%)‡

p§

n (%)‡

n (%)‡

p§

Topics related to Biology

      

Girls' physical changes (menstruation, breast ...)

90 (9.0)

1161 (59.9)

<0.001

423 (44.0)

1454 (81.1)

<0.001

Boys' physical changes (beard, wet dreams ...)

204 (18.8)

174 (10.7)

<0.001

695 (67.9)

759 (47.5)

<0.001

AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections

235 (21.7)

491 (25.7)

0.026

811 (78.7)

1496 (83.3)

0.007

Pregnancy, the beginning of life

251 (23.9)

800 (41.7)

<0.001

672 (66.8)

1530 (85.3)

<0.001

Condoms and methods of contraception

110 (10.2)

211 (11.1)

0.474

721 (70.5)

1126 (63.1)

<0.001

Topics related to character and emotions

      

How to know when I will be ready to start dating

224 (20.6)

671 (34.9)

<0.001

762 (74.5)

1436 (80.3)

0.002

How to know when I will be ready to have sex

110 (10.2)

254 (13.4)

0.022

673 (65.5)

991 (55.7)

<0.001

What "falling in love" means

278 (25.7)

648 (33.9)

<0.001

872 (85.2)

1627 (89.8)

0.001

How to continue going out with a person without having sexual relationships

181 (16.8)

509 (26.7)

<0.001

746 (72.6)

1420 (79.6)

<0.001

How to know if the person I am dating is the right one to share my future life with

281 (26.0)

702 (36.8)

<0.001

839 (81.4)

1583 (87.8)

<0.001

How to better manage my feelings and emotions

363 (33.5)

883 (46.1)

<0.001

897 (86.9)

1714 (94.4)

<0.001

How to better manage my sexual drive/passion

133 (12.3)

291 (15.4)

0.036

741 (72.2)

1170 (65.9)

0.002

How to tell the difference between desire, sexual attraction and love

185 (17.1)

469 (24.7)

<0.001

859 (83.0)

1571 (86.6)

0.023

  1. * Respondents marking the 4th or the 5th answer option in the question "I have talked to my parents about ...", with a five-point Likert scale labeled from a low "Nothing" to a high "A lot" score.
  2. † Respondents saying they would like to know more about each topic.
  3. ‡ Proportions are calculated using denominators that range from 961 to 1085 (males) and from 1597 to 1937 (females) because some items were not responded by some participants.
  4. § p value of the adjusted Wald test taking into account the clustered sampling scheme.
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