caa a22 4500 606231757 CHVBK 20210128101222.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-013-0162-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-013-0162-5 Social Factors Associated with Readiness for Sexual Activity in Adolescents: A Population-Based Cohort Study [Elektronische Daten] [Jon Heron, Nicola Low, Glyn Lewis, John Macleod, Andy Ness, Andrea Waylen] Various factors are associated with sexual activity in adolescence and it is important to identify those that promote healthy and adaptive romantic and sexual development. The objectives of this study were to describe rates of early sexual intercourse (before 16years) and sexual readiness in adolescence and to assess the extent to which these were social patterned. We prospectively studied nearly 5,000 15-year-olds from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a UK birth cohort. Between 2006 and 2008, female and male participants answered a computer assisted interview about romantic and sexual behaviors in the last year. Predictors of sexual intercourse and readiness for sexual intercourse were examined across a range of sociodemographic measures. Overall, 17.7% (95% CI 16.7%, 18.9%) of participants reported having had sexual intercourse in the last year, with more girls than boys reporting sexual experience (risk ratio 1.30, 95% CI 1.15, 1.47). Of these, one-third of both male and female were classed as unready because they were unwilling, lacking in autonomy, felt regret or had not used contraception. There was strong evidence of social patterning for sexual activity with higher rates for young people from poorer homes, with lower social class, and with younger, less educated mothers. In contrast, among 860 young people who had had sexual intercourse, there was no clear evidence of associations between social factors and sexual readiness. The lack of social patterning in sexual readiness supports the provision of comprehensive education to develop life skills for adolescents across all social groups. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 ALSPAC nationallicence Adolescence nationallicence Early sexual activity nationallicence Sexual readiness nationallicence Social factors nationallicence Heron Jon School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Clifton, BS8 2BN, Bristol, UK aut Low Nicola Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland aut Lewis Glyn School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Clifton, BS8 2BN, Bristol, UK aut Macleod John School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Clifton, BS8 2BN, Bristol, UK aut Ness Andy School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK aut Waylen Andrea School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/3(2015-04-01), 669-678 0004-0002 44:3<669 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0162-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0162-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Heron Jon School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Clifton, BS8 2BN, Bristol, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Low Nicola Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lewis Glyn School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Clifton, BS8 2BN, Bristol, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Macleod John School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Clifton, BS8 2BN, Bristol, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ness Andy School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Waylen Andrea School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/3(2015-04-01), 669-678 0004-0002 44:3<669 2015 44 10508