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PREPARE Project The intervention

PREPARE Project The intervention. Parent-Adolescent Communication on issues relating to sexuality Cape Town Presentation. Objectives. To increase proportion of students with intentions to delay sexual debut To increase knowledge and influence attitudes of adolescents about condoms

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PREPARE Project The intervention

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  1. PREPARE Project The intervention Parent-Adolescent Communication on issues relating to sexuality Cape Town Presentation Presentation in Cape Town November 2013

  2. Objectives • To increase proportion of students with intentions to delay sexual debut • To increase knowledge and influence attitudes of adolescents about condoms • To increase the frequency and quality of parent-child communication in Kampala and Wakiso

  3. Intervention Three main components Learner´s Component Intergration of SRH issues in English and CRE lessons Parent´s Component Parent‘s workshops & Brochure Parent- Child Component homework

  4. Learner’s component • S1 students • majority aged between 12-14 years • Their parents/guardians • 11 pairs of government-aided were day- mixed schools - urban, peri-urban, rural • March – June, 2012 • 14 weeks

  5. Aims • Behaviors to influence • Intentions to delay sexual debut • Improved attitudes towards condoms

  6. Themes, lessons & homework

  7. Process evaluation • Forms completed by teachers – homework given out and homework received back • Forms for parents • Forms for learner

  8. Parent‘s component • 3 one-day workshops • Beginning of the intervention • Middle • End • Facilitators • Trained teacher and parent to facilitate the workshops • PREPARE team observed

  9. Aims of the workshops • Influence 2 behaviors • Increase the frequency and quality of communication about • Sex and sexuality with emphasis on delay sexual debut • Prevention of risky behaviours focusing on on condom education

  10. Objectives of the workshops • To increase parents’ knowledge about • adolescent SRH issues • the physical and emotional/mental health developmental changes that occur with onset of puberty, their consequences if not well managed and the community resources available to address these consequences • To improve parenting skills and practices by • boosting their self esteem and building self efficacy skills to increase parent’s ability and confidence to discuss with their children issues of sex and sexuality and issues of prevention

  11. Content and Methods of delivery Adapted from: SMART Choices Parenting Workshop Guide for Adult facilitators

  12. Parent‘s Brochure Messages • Most young people want information about sex and sexuality from their parents • Parents should accept that it may be awkward and embarrasing to talk to their adolescent child about sex and sexuality • Parents should answer their children‘s questions direcltly, honestly and without jugedment • Parents should communicate values about sex and sexuality honestly • Ultimatums or threats do not work

  13. Baseline Students

  14. Baseline DataParents

  15. Post-intervention Students

  16. Post interventionParents

  17. Makerere University Team • Assoc. Prof Anne R. Katahoire • Dr Wilson W. Muhwezi • Dr Cecily Banura • Mr Herbert Mugooda • Oslo • Shri Bastien • Prof Kunt –Inga Klepp

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