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Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia

This was a cross-sectional study to identify the association between sociocognitive factors (permissive attitude, social-norms, and self-efficacy) and intention towards sexual activity among 466 Malaysian school-going late adolescents (aged 18–19 years) in Kuantan, Malaysia. Majority were females (...

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Main Authors:	Abdullah, Fa’iza, A. Rahman, Nor Azlina, Muhammad, Noor Azimah, Zainuddin, Nur Akmanidar, Samsudin, Suhaiza
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Published:	Taylor & Francis Online 2020
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spelling	my.iium.irep.837952022-03-16T08:05:29Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/83795/ Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia Abdullah, Fa’iza A. Rahman, Nor Azlina Muhammad, Noor Azimah Zainuddin, Nur Akmanidar Samsudin, Suhaiza R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RS Pharmacy and materia medica RZ Other systems of medicine This was a cross-sectional study to identify the association between sociocognitive factors (permissive attitude, social-norms, and self-efficacy) and intention towards sexual activity among 466 Malaysian school-going late adolescents (aged 18–19 years) in Kuantan, Malaysia. Majority were females (64.4%), Malays (67.4%) and Muslims (68.2%). Simple logistic regression from data collected by self-administered validated Youth Sexual-Intention Questionnaire (YSI-Q) showed significantly increase risk of having sexual intention for each unit increase in permissive attitude, social-norms and self-efficacy scores with the odds ratio (OR) of 1.424, 1.303 and 1.215, respectively. On the other hand, multivariate logistic regression resulted in male, non-Malay, ever-smoker students and permissive attitude showing significantly higher risk towards having sexual intention with the OR of 0.163 (male was the reference group), 5.110, 3.288 and 1.236, respectively. In order to reduce risky sexual behaviour among adolescents, school-based health education is essential. Taylor & Francis Online 2020-10-14 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/83795/14/83795_Association%20between%20social-cognitive_UPDATE.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/83795/7/Association%20between%20social-cognitive%20factors%20and%20intention%20towards%20sexual%20activity%20among%20school-going%20late%20adolescents%20in%20Kuantan%2C%20Malaysia_scopus.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/83795/13/83795_Association%20between%20social-cognitive_wos.pdf Abdullah, Fa’iza and A. Rahman, Nor Azlina and Muhammad, Noor Azimah and Zainuddin, Nur Akmanidar and Samsudin, Suhaiza (2020) Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 25 (1). pp. 1000-1008. ISSN 0267-3843 E-ISSN 2164-4527 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02673843.2020.1828111?needAccess=true 10.1080/02673843.2020.1828111
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spellingShingle	R Medicine (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RS Pharmacy and materia medica RZ Other systems of medicine Abdullah, Fa’iza A. Rahman, Nor Azlina Muhammad, Noor Azimah Zainuddin, Nur Akmanidar Samsudin, Suhaiza Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia
description	This was a cross-sectional study to identify the association between sociocognitive factors (permissive attitude, social-norms, and self-efficacy) and intention towards sexual activity among 466 Malaysian school-going late adolescents (aged 18–19 years) in Kuantan, Malaysia. Majority were females (64.4%), Malays (67.4%) and Muslims (68.2%). Simple logistic regression from data collected by self-administered validated Youth Sexual-Intention Questionnaire (YSI-Q) showed significantly increase risk of having sexual intention for each unit increase in permissive attitude, social-norms and self-efficacy scores with the odds ratio (OR) of 1.424, 1.303 and 1.215, respectively. On the other hand, multivariate logistic regression resulted in male, non-Malay, ever-smoker students and permissive attitude showing significantly higher risk towards having sexual intention with the OR of 0.163 (male was the reference group), 5.110, 3.288 and 1.236, respectively. In order to reduce risky sexual behaviour among adolescents, school-based health education is essential.
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author	Abdullah, Fa’iza A. Rahman, Nor Azlina Muhammad, Noor Azimah Zainuddin, Nur Akmanidar Samsudin, Suhaiza
author_facet	Abdullah, Fa’iza A. Rahman, Nor Azlina Muhammad, Noor Azimah Zainuddin, Nur Akmanidar Samsudin, Suhaiza
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title	Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_short	Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_full	Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_fullStr	Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia
title_sort	association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in kuantan, malaysia
publisher	Taylor & Francis Online
publishDate	2020
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Association between social-cognitive factors and intention towards sexual activity among schoolgoing late adolescents in Kuantan, Malaysia

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