Willingness of youth without disabilities to have romantic love and marital relationships with persons with disabilities

The objective of the present research was to assess the willingness of non-disabled youth to engage in conjugal relationships with persons with disabilities in Wolaita Sodo town, Ethiopia. Both descriptive and explanatory study designs were used and quantitative data were collected. A self-administered questionnaire was designed and distributed to randomly selected 403 (202 females& 201 males) unmarried youth. Data analysis was undertaken using SPSS software in which both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were utilized for data presentation. The result showed that most (85.5%) of the young people without disabilities participated in the survey were not willing to have any type of personal relationships with persons with disabilities and the main reason for 44.2% of these respondents being the fear of reaction from family members. Furthermore, it was found that the level of willingness of youth without disabilities to engage in romantic love and marital relationships was not influenced by the socio-economic status of people with disabilities. Moreover, the result of binary logistic regression analysis showed that the willingness of respondents to have marital and romantic love relationship with persons with disabilities is significantly associated to the sex (OR  = 2.376;P <  0.05; 95%CI = 1.210, 4.664), raised-up area (OR = 2.512;P <  0.01; 95%CI = 1.319, 4.783), age (OR = 2.886; P <  0.05; 95%CI = 1.012, 8.228...
Source: Life Sciences, Society and Policy - Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research