Olaleye Oladipupo
Oladipupo Olaleye is an experienced public health researcher and monitoring and evaluation specialist. He has bachelor’s degree in human Anatomy, Master Degree in Public Health (MPH) and he is currently on his doctoral degree in the University of Ibadan. He has up 20 papers published in peer reviewed journals. His areas of research include Social media research, youth and adolescent reproductive health, and HIV.
He has also worked and consulted for various organizations and individual researchers including Youth Empowerment Foundation, Police Health Maintenance Limited, Blue Gate Public Health Initiatives and African Regional Health Education Centre, Ibadan.
Supervisors: Prof. Ademola J. Ajuwon
Address: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
He has also worked and consulted for various organizations and individual researchers including Youth Empowerment Foundation, Police Health Maintenance Limited, Blue Gate Public Health Initiatives and African Regional Health Education Centre, Ibadan.
Supervisors: Prof. Ademola J. Ajuwon
Address: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out among randomly selected 194 senior secondary students in four secondary schools in Ibadan. The questionnaire explored the socio-demographic data, SB, frequency of use of SM, and activities on SM. Data was analysed using descriptive statistics and Chi-square at 0.05 level of significance.
Results The mean age of the respondents was 14.7±1.2 and 50.3% were females. Some (15.2%) reported ever experienced sexual intercourse. The mean age of sexual debut was 12.2±2.8. Most (88.0%) reported the use SM, the highest used social medium was Facebook (71.2%) followed by Whatsapp (55.0%) while the most frequently used was Whatsapp followed by facebook; 44.7% and 25.4% reported everyday use respectively. Activities reported on SM included reading of news (60.7%), download/listen to music (62.8%), watch/download pornographic pictures (5.2%), watch/download pornographic videos (8.4%), search for sexual partners (16.8%), share pornographic pictures (4.2%) and videos (4.7%). Significantly, more of those who had ever experienced sexual intercourse watched/downloaded pornographic pictures (24.1% vs 1.9%) and videos (37.9% vs 3.1%), and search for sexual partners (58.6% vs 9.3%) using the SM.
Conclusion A number of the adolescents use social-media and many engage in activities that could be risky to their sexual life on these media especially those who have ever experienced sexual intercourse. Intervention to ensure safe use of the social-media should be carried out among these young persons.