• Manuela Ferreira, Paula Nelas, João Duarte, Carlos Albuquerque, Célia Grilo, and Filipe Nave.
• Health School-Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, CI & DETS-FCT, Portugal. mmcferreira@gmail.com
• Aten Primaria. 2013 May 1; 45 Suppl 2: 216-22.

BackgroundAdolescence is characterized by an increase in autonomy and the transformation of family relationships. Their experience has different meanings in future quality of life.ObjectivesTo analyze the relationship between the sociodemographic variables, of Sexual context and attitudes adopted by teenagers facing sexuality with the organizational culture of the family.MethodsObservational descriptive and correlational, transversal study. The non-probabilistic convenience sample consists of 1216 adolescents attending the 9th year of study in Portuguese Public Schools and is part of the project PTDC/CPE-CED/103313/2008, the questionnaire applied was family organizational culture of Nave (2007) and attitudes towards sexuality of Nelas et al (2010).ResultsThe majority lives in a village (47.5% of boys and 50.0% girls) .12.9%of boys do not use condoms in all relationships, and the same applies to 17.8% of girls. They belong mostly (55.8% boys and 49.5% girls) to a family with poor interpersonal relationships culture. The majority (51.8%) males and (58.9%) females have a family with moderate heuristic culture. Boys and girls (33.6% and 36.9%) both demonstrate a predominantly moderate hierarchy family culture and a moderate social goals family culture as well. Adolescents who have a bad attitude towards sexuality, mostly (43.2%) present a weak interpersonal relationships family culture with statistical significance (χ(2)=32,092, p=0.000) and have moderate hierarchy family culture and also moderate social goals family culture, without statistical significance.ConclusionThe family that loves, welcomes and cares is the same that educates and informs about sexuality, promoting youth empowerment making them safer, healthier and happier.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.

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