Características de padres e hijos con discapacidad que intervienen en la comunicación sobre sexualidad

The objective of this research was to know how the sociodemographic characteristics of parents and children with disabilities intervene in the way they communicate and the topics of sexuality they address. A non-probabilistic sample of 172 parents, whose children were young and/or adolescents with some disability (intellectual, auditory, visual, motor and/or multiple), were employed; 81.3% of the participants were women and their average age was 45 years (DE = 8). A self-report instrument was used to collect sociodemographic data about parents their own characteristics (gender, age, marital status, occupation, religion, monthly income and number of children) and their children's (gender, age, schooling, origin of the disability and abilities that they have), as well as the way they communicate and the topics of sexuality they address. The results indicate that parents talk about a greater number of sexuality issues when they communicate verbally or through LSM (F = 9.52, P = .000) and when they have only one child (F = 3.555, P < .05). The characteristics of the young people who intervened on the communication were: level of studies (F = 3.547, P < .05), developed behavioral abilities (F = 9.558, P < .00), type of disability (F = 3.509, P < .05) and origin (t = –2.722, P < .05).