Effects of Mother-Participating Program on Sexual Communication between Mother and Early Female Adolescents

บทคัดย่อ

This quasi-experimental research was aimed to examine the effects of motherparticipating

program of communication on attitudes of parent-adolescent communication,

comfort with communication related to sexual topics, and communication skill.

A sample of 60 mothers of adolescent females was randomly assigned to treatment

group (n=30) and control group (n= 30). Both groups received knowledge content

about birth control and condom use, going out with boyfriends, contraceptive use,

managing sexual desire and principles of family communication for 2 hours. Intervention

group was received the Appreciation-Influence-Control (AIC) Interventions

consisted of five 60–90 minutes modules implemented on two consecutive Saturdays,

including small-group discussions, videos, interactive exercises such as role–plays,

and skills-building activities. Mothers in treatment group also received content to

support sexual–specific communication (e.g., parental values and standards about

sex, how to avoid risky situations, dealing with discomfort about communication)

and parent–adolescent communication in general (e.g., aspirations for their children,

creating opportunities for communication). Mothers were provided with “homework”

that was to be completed with their adolescent in between sessions as a means of

practicing some of the communication strategies presented in the program within

2 weeks. Measures were administered at baseline and 2-weekposttest. Data were

collected by self-administered questionnaires and analyzed by Chi-square test, Independent

t-test and Dependent t-test. The findings indicated that mothers in the

Mother-Participation Intervention had significantly more positive attitudes towards

communication (p < .001), more comfort with communication (p < .05), and more

skills of sexual risk communication (p < .05) than mothers in the control group.

This result suggested that participation learning played important role to develop

maternal competency of communication with daughter about sexual initiation and

safe sex.