Nivel de conocimientos y formas de comunicación, sobre sexualidad en las familias de los adolescentes de octavo, noveno, y décimo año de educación básica del Colegio Javeriano, Cuenca 2015

Abstract

The creation of a family is the central act of man. Sexuality finds its proper place in the family; a place where love creates a new life that must be cared for and fed by parents. Objective: To determine the level of knowledge about sexuality and family communication Teen 8th, 9th, and 10th year of basic Javeriano College Sayausí parish. Method and Materials: a descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative approach. The study universe consists of all students in 8th, 9th and 10th year of college Javeriano, but the formula applied is the sample of 194 cases. The techniques and research instruments to be used are surveys, prior informed where they agree to cooperate with the research agreement. Results: Based on the objectives, the most outstanding results of all emphasizes that teens surveyed, the highest percentage corresponded to female representatives and the average age of them is 13.5 years. It was found that possess an average level of knowledge about sexuality; there are a significant number of students who know essential aspects of the issue and it is not treated freely in homes through conversations between parents and children. Significant was the finding that 48.5% of students obtaining the main source of information on sexuality was the internet, which corroborates family communication difficulties especially for addressing this issue