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Title: | Sexual Behavior Among Orphaned Adolescents in Western Kenya: A Comparison of Institutional- and Family-Based Care Settings |
Authors: | Lukoye Atwoli Paula Braitstein Mary A. Ott M.D. Lonnie Embleton Nyandat Joram Sang Edwin Kamanda Allan Ayaya Samuel Nyandiko Winstone M. Gisore Peter Vreeman Rachel C. Omar Galarraga |
Keywords: | Orphans Sexual behavior Transactional sex Kenya Institutional care Family-based care |
Issue Date: | 15-Nov-2016 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd. |
Abstract: | Purpose: This study sought to assess whether risky sexual behaviors and sexual exploitation of orphaned adolescents differed between family-based and institutional care environments in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. Methods: We analyzed baseline data from a cohort of orphaned adolescents aged 10 e 18 years living in 300 randomly selected households and 19 charitable children ’ s institutions. The primary outcomes were having ever had consensual sex, number of sex partners, transactional sex, and forced sex. Multivariate logistic regression compared these between participants in institutional care and family-based care while adjusting for age, sex, orphan status, importance of religion, caregiver support and supervision, school attendance, and alcohol and drug use. Results: This analysis included 1,365 participants aged 10 years: 712 (52%) living in institutional environments and 653 (48%) in family-based care. Participants in institutional care were signi fi - cantly less likely to report engaging in transactional sex (adjusted odds ratio, .46; 95% con fi dence interval, .3 e .72) or to have experienced forced sex (adjusted odds ratio, .57; 95% con fi dence interval, .38 e .88) when controlling for age, sex, and orphan status. These associations remained when adjusting for additional variables |
URI: | https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(16)30868-0/pdf http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2561 |
Appears in Collections: | School of Medicine |
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