Abstract

MORAES, Laura de et al. Early sexual debut and associated factor: a literature review. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2019, vol.20, n.1, pp.59-73. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/19psd200105.

The objective of this study was to investigate early sexual debut and associated factor in adolescents. Methods: A literature review was conducted in the Pubmed database, through the descriptors: early sexual debut AND youth risk behavior survey. The issues that address the main associated factors with the Early sexual debut in adolescence and research whose participants was not expose to other types of vulnerabilities, such as sex workers and population minorities. Exclusion criteria were studies that did not perform multivariate statistical analysis and articles that did not make clear which landmark was considered as early sexual initiation. Results: of 123 initially located articles, twenty-one were selected at the end, where the age considered as early sexual initiation varied between 13 and 18 years, but most studies used the mean of 15 years. Significant association was found between early sexual debut and sociodemographic factors, antisocial behaviors, interpersonal relationships, use of psychoactive and risky sexual behaviors. Conclusion: none of the studies found was of a longitudinal character, which prevents us from establishing a coincidence with the factors explained here.

Keywords : sexual behavior; risk-taking; adolescent; adolescence.

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