Research Brief: Sexual Communication and Knowledge Among Mexican Parents and Their Adolescent Children

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 28-34

  Gallegos, Esther C ^a   Villarruel, Antonia M ^a   Gómez, Marco Vinicio ^a   Onofre, Dora Julia ^a   Zhou, Yan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

adolescents; HIV; Mexico; parents; sexual communication

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MICHIGAN; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK-TAKING; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34047270570     PISSN: 10553290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Álvarez G.B., López M.C., García-Bobia L., and Fernández C.E. Conocimientos, actitudes y conductas en relación con la infección por el HIV/SIDA en estudiantes de bachillerato y formación profesional de Mieres. [Knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to HIV/AIDS infection in 10th-12th grade students and college students from Mieres]. Doyma. 18 (1996) 362-367
2. Baird T.L. Mexican adolescent sexuality: Attitudes, knowledge, and sources of information. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 15 (1993) 402-417
3. Blake S.M., Smikin L., Ledsky R., Perkins C., and Calabrese J. Effects of parent-child communications intervention on young adolescents' risk for early onset of sexual intercourse. Family Planning Perspectives 33 (2001) 52-61
4. Brito A. Costumbres sexuales y cambio de valores (2000). http://www.jornada.unam.mx [Sexual habits and change in values] [Letters]. Retrieved February 6, 2007, from http://www.jornada.unam.mx
5. Caballero H.R., and Villaseñor S.A. El estrato socioeconómico como factor predictor del uso constante de condón en adolescentes. [The socioeconomic level as a predicting factor for the constant use of condoms by adolescents]. Salúd Pública de Mexico 35 (2001) 531-538
6. Caballero-Hoyos R., and Villaseñor-Sierra A. Conocimientos sobre VIH/SIDA en adolescentes urbanos: Consenso cultural de dudas e incertidumbres. [Knowledge about HIV/AIDS in urban adolescents: Cultural consensus of doubts and uncertainties]. Salud Pública de México 45 (2003) S108-S114
7. Castro-Sansores C., López-Ávila M., and Góngora-Biachi R. Conocimientos e impacto de tres medios de enseñanza en relación con el síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida en estudiantes universitarios. [Knowledge and impact of three means of teaching related to AIDS in college students]. Revista Biomédica 11 (2000) 7-16
8. Consejo Estatal para la Prevención y Control del SIDA, Nuevo Leon. (2004). COSIDA 2004. Retrieved January 4, 2006, from http://www.uanl.mx/publicaciones/respyn/especiales/adolescencia/PROUNISEV%20Dr.%20Jose%20Manuel%20R.pdf
9. DiIorio C., Kelley M., and Hockenberry-Eaton M. Communication about sexual issues: Mothers, fathers, and friends. Journal of Adolescent Health 24 (1999) 181-189
10. Gayet C., Rosas C.A., Magis C., and Uribe P. Con quién hablan los adolescentes Mexicanos sobre el SIDA. [Who Mexican adolescents talk to about AIDS]. Salud Pública de México 44 (2002) 122-128
11. Guerrero-Soler C., Quiroz-Viqueira O., Sánchez-Miranda D., Más-Álvarez I., and Rodríguez -Bencomo D. Los adolescentes y sus conocimientos sobre el SIDA. [Adolescents and their knowledge of AIDS]. Acta Pediátrica de México 23 (2002) 223-227
12. Hutchinson M.K. Individual, family, and relationship predictors of young women's sexual risk perceptions. JOGNN-Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing 28 (1999) 60-67
13. Hutchinson M.K., and Cooney T.M. Patterns of parent-teen sexual risk communication: Implications for intervention. Family Relations 47 (1998) 185-194
14. Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática [National Institute of Statistics, Geography and IT]. Estadísticas de natalidad (2005). http://www.inegi.gob.mx [Birth statistics]. Retrieved February 7, 2007, from http://www.inegi.gob.mx
15. Jemmott III J.B., Jemmott L.S., and Fong G.T. Abstinence and safer sex interventions for African American adolescents: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 279 (1998) 1529-1536
16. Jemmott III J.B., Jemmott L.S., and Fong G.T. Reductions in HIV risk-associated sexual behaviors among Black male adolescents: Effects of an AIDS prevention intervention. American Journal of Public Health 82 (1992) 372-377
17. Lehr S., Demi A., Dilorio C., and Facteau J. Predictors of father-son communication about sexuality. The Journal of Sex Research. 42 (2005) 119-129
18. Piña L.J. Eventos disposicionales que probabilizan la práctica de conductas de riesgo para el VIH/SIDA [Dispositional events that make the practice of risky behavior for HIV/AIDS more likely]. Anales de Psicología 20 (2004) 23-32
19. Secretaría de Educación Pública. Programa Nacional de Educación 2001-2006. 1a ed. (2001), Author, México, DF
20. Tapia-Aguirre V., Arillo-Santillán E., Allen B., Angeles-Llerenas A., Cruz-Valdéz A., and Lazcano-Ponce E. Associations among condom use, sexual behavior, and knowledge about HIV/AIDS. A study of 13,293 public school students. Archives of Medical Research 35 (2004) 334-343
21. Villarruel A.M., Jemmott III J.B., Jemmott L.S., and Ronis D.L. Predictors of sexual intercourse and condom use intentions among Spanish-dominant Latino youth: A test of the planned behavior theory. Nursing Research 53 (2004) 172-181
22. Villarruel A.M., Gallegos E., and Loveland-Cherry C. Reducing HIV risk among Mexican youth (2001), Author, Washington, DC Grant proposal funded by National Institutes of Nursing Research
23. Villaseñor-Sierra A., Caballeo-Hoyos R., Hidalgo-San Martín A., and Santos-Preciado I. Conocimiento objetivo y subjetivo sobre el VIH/SIDA como predictor del uso de condón en adolescentes [Objective and subjective knowledge about HIV/AIDS as predictor for the use of the condom in adolescents]. Salud Pública de México 45 (2003) S73-S80
24. Werner O., and Campbell D.T. Translating, working through interpreters and the problem of decentering. In: Cohen R.N., and Cohen R. (Eds). A handbook of method in cultural anthropology (1970), American Museum of Natural History, New York