Factors determining premarital sexual practice of school students, institutional based cross sectional study in northern Ethiopia

Abstract Objective Reports indicating that adolescents Sexual activities have been increasing worldwide, and the issue is most of the Sexual activities are happening before marriage, which makes vulnerable for multi-sexual behaviors, but there is limited data in this title in the region. So this study intended to identify the status and determinants of premarital sexual practice. Result Among the students 292(52.1%) were females, most of the students found in the age interval of 13 up to 23 (121(21.6%), the prevalence of premarital sexual practice was 21.5%. Residence, discussion on reproductive health issues with family members, monthly pocket money, peer pressure, seen pornography had significant association with the dependent variable.