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Kym Ahrens1, Wadiya Udell2, Katie Albertson3
1Seattle Children's Research Institute (K Ahrens, K Albertson, A Coatney, and SJ Lowry), Seattle, Wash; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine (K Ahrens and SA Golub), Seattle, Wash; Division of Adolescent Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital (K Ahrens and SA Golub), Seattle, Wash.
Academic Pediatrics
|October 8, 2022
Summary
Caregiver-youth conflict negatively impacts foster youth sexual health knowledge and communication. Reducing conflict is crucial for improving sexual health support and outcomes for these vulnerable youth.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Social Work
- Adolescent Health
Background:
- Foster youth face elevated risks for adverse sexual health outcomes.
- Caregivers often lack adequate knowledge and skills for discussing sexual health with foster youth.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe sexual health communication and monitoring among foster caregivers.
- To examine the link between caregiver emotion regulation, caregiver-youth conflict, and sexual health variables.
Main Methods:
- Surveys were administered to 127 foster and kinship caregivers in New York and Los Angeles.
- Data collected included caregiver emotion regulation, conflict, sexual health knowledge, communication, and monitoring behaviors.
- Multivariate regression analyses assessed associations between variables.
Main Results:
- Caregiver-youth conflict was inversely associated with sexual health knowledge, communication frequency, and monitoring.
- Caregivers answered an average of 68% of sexual health knowledge questions correctly.
- The sample was predominantly female (92%) and African American (55%).
Conclusions:
- Caregiver-youth conflict is significantly related to sexual health knowledge, communication, and monitoring.
- Further research is needed to understand the complex dynamics between caregiver-youth relationships and sexual health outcomes in foster care.
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