Assessment of Premarital Sexual Initiation Practice and Associated Factors among Orthodox Sunday School Students at Miskaye Hizunan Medhane Alem Monastry Church, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022

Bekalu Abebe¹, Trhas Tadesse Berhe^2*, Yared Shiferaw³, Addisu Tadesse Sahile⁴, Getachew Woldeyohannes Tedla² & Binyam Gintamo¹

¹Public Health Department, Addis Ababa Medical and Business College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
²Public Health Department, Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
³Maternity and Child Health Department Head, Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
⁴Public Health Department, Unity University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dr. Trhas Tadesse Berhe, Public Health Department, Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Keywords: Monastery Church; Miskaye Hizunan Medhane Alem; Premarital Sexual Initiation; Reproductive Health; Sunday School Students

Abstract

Background: Youths’ risky behavior is one of the public health issues which gained paramount importance in the developed as well as developing counties like. Therefore, this study investigated the prevalence of premarital sexual practice and associated factors among Orthodox Sunday School Students at Miskaye Hizunan Medhane Alem Monastry Church, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022.

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