Gender Norms, Resiliency and sexual practices of street involved Young person in southwestern Nigeria
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2021
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Department of demography, Faculty of Social sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife
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This study examined the influence of gendered norms and resiliency on sexual practices among street-involved young persons in Southwestern Nigeria. It assessed the existing gendered norms, examined the effect of resiliency strategies on sexual practices, and ascertained the effect of gendered norms and social correlates on sexual practices. Lastly, it determined the joint effect of these factors on sexual practices among street-involved young persons. This were with a view to provide information to young persons on issues revolving around reproductive health and sexual practices.
This study adopted a descriptive survey research design and employed a secondary data that assessed the Sexual and reproductive health needs of street-involved young people. The indicators for the study include: sexual and reproductive health, gendered norms, resiliency, quality of life. Also, the standard for those selected, using a non-probability purposive sampling technique were street-involved young persons between ages 15–24 years who were exposed to risky sexual practices. This population were selected using the Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) module and the sample size was 204 respondents. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics at three levels i.e. univariate, bivariate and multivariate, following each of the specified objectives. Frequency tabulation and chart were employed at the univariate level, the unadjusted Chi-square test of independence was used at the bivariate level and the multivariate level applied the binary logistic regression model.
The result showed that in spite of the high rate of risky sexual practices at 80%, majority of the SIYPs had good gendered norms (92%) and majority had high resilience (52%). Furthermore, there was a major influence of gendered norms on sexual practice (ꭓ2=7.9466; p=0.005) and also showed that education, religion and current work status were good predictors of sexual practices of SIYPs. Respondents with bad gendered norms had higher risk of engaging in risky sexual practices that those with good norms (OR=4.29, p<0.05; CI=1.45 – 12.68). Also respondents that were working had lower odds of engaging in risky sexual practices (OR=0.21, p<0.05; CI=0.07 – 0.58), and respondents with single parent had high risk of engaging in risky practices (OR=3.62; p>0.05; CI= 0.41 – 31.92) than those with both parent (OR=0.76; p>0.05; CI= 0.27 – 2.16), with no significant influence.
This study concluded that most street children were involved in risky sexual practices and some of these were caused by their negative influence to societal norms based on their freelance lifestyle.
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OLUREMI, B.O (2021) Gender Norms, Resiliency and sexual practices of street involved Young person in southwestern Nigeria, Department of demography, Faculty of Social sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife.