Indian Female Late Adolescence Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior: Does these Behaviors impacts their Sexual and Reproductive Health Systems?

Adolescence face many pressures and decisions that often occur simultaneously. Research has shown that many health risk behaviors occur in combination with one another, yet it is often unclear which behavior comes first. Substance use increases the probability that an adolescent will initiate sexual activity at an earlier age which may lead to unprotected sexual intercourse, and have multiple partners which might impacts their sexual and reproductive health systems such as by contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV/AIDS. Therefore, an attempt has been made to study the Indian female late adolescents’ substance use, risky sexual behavior and resulting of impacts on their sexual and reproductive health systems. Uni-variate, bi-variate was used to see the percentage distributions and by different background characteristics and multivariate analysis was applied in order to examine the most important predictors of their substance use and risky sexual behavior. Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient to see if there were any significant relationships between their risky behaviours and impacting of their sexual and reproductive health systems. Hence it proved to have a strong statistically significant positive correlation between risky behavior and impacting on their sexual & reproductive health systems (rho=0.286,p<.000