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Author (s) Title/Publication Objective Methodology Result/Discussion/Future suggestions

[32]. Early Sexual Initiation To explore factors that Qualitative The findings revealed two general pathways

Nik Farid ND, among Malaysian influence early sexual of adolescents’ sexual initiation to early
Dahlui M, Che Adolescents in Welfare initiation among sexual initiation: Distal - poor religiosity,

Rus S, Aziz NA, Institutions: A adolescents. domestic violence, poor interest in school

2015 Qualitative Study and loitering with friends. Proximal -
curiosity, stress relief, partner

Arts and Social Sciences acquiescence and peer pressure to be

Journal, 06(04) directly associated with their early sexual
initiation.

[33] Awareness of school To identify the level of Cross-sectional Approximately 12.6% claimed to have

Anwar, students on sexually knowledge and sexual sexual experience of which 75.7% had their
Sulaiman, transmitted infections behavior of school sexual debut at 15-19 years and 38.2%

Ahmadi, & Khan, (STIs) and their sexual students and their were having more than 3 partners. Sexual

2010 behavior: a cross- attitudes towards STI’s experience was found to be significantly
sectional study associated with gender (p = 0.003),

conducted in Pulau ethnicity (p = 0.001) and education level (p

Pinang, Malaysia = 0.030).

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