Objective@#To understand
parent child communication about
sex related topics in
rural areas of Sichuan Province, and to provide the basis for
family sex education.@*
Methods@#A multi stage stratified
cluster sampling was adopted to select 2 801
parents of
children from 53 township kindergartens in Sichuan Province.
Questionnaires were conducted to
parents about
sex education in
family by
face to
face interview or
self filling.@*Results@#About 41.63% of
parents reported that
children had questions about
sex, and the rate of proper
parent child communication was 57.46%. The results of binary unconditional
Logistic regression analysis showed that township residence( OR=1.46, 95%CI =1.12-1.90),
high school or higher educational background of
mothers( OR= 1.77 , 95%CI =1.38-2.28), non-left-behind
children( OR=1.32, 95%CI =1.03-1.69), supportive for
parent child communication about
sex related topics( OR=1.66, 95%CI =1.05-2.63),
sex education at home( OR=1.60, 95%CI =1.25-2.05) were associated with a higher rate of proper
parent child communication on
sex( P <0.05).@*Conclusion@#In
rural areas of Sichuan, proper
parent child communication about
sex related topics was not common. It is suggested that in
rural areas,
parents should enhance their
awareness of the
knowledge and importance of
children s
sex education, and improve the coping
methods of
children s
sex-related problems so as to promote the healthy
growth of
children s body and mind.