scholarly journals The Effect of Comprehensive Sexual Education Program on Sexual Health Knowledge and Sexual Attitude Among College Students in Southwest China

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. NP2049-NP2066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinli Chi ◽  
Skyler T. Hawk ◽  
Sam Winter ◽  
Wim Meeus
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Sexual Attitude ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Sexual Health Knowledge

scholarly journals Comprehensive sexuality education in Hong Kong: study protocol for process and outcome evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie Bostwick Andres ◽  
Edmond Pui Hang Choi ◽  
Alice Wai Chi Fung ◽  
Kevin Wing Chung Lau ◽  
Neda Hei Tung Ng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Comprehensive School ◽  
Comprehensive Sexuality Education ◽  
School Based ◽  
Sexual Health Knowledge ◽  
Education In Hong Kong

Abstract Background Hong Kong lacks comprehensive school-based sexuality education. Recent public health concerns have brought the inadequacies of sex education in Hong Kong to the forefront. The aim of the proposed study is to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive school-based sexuality education program in Hong Kong. Methods The proposed study is a prospective longitudinal study implemented in six secondary schools in Hong Kong over two academic years. The study adopts an ecological approach providing informational workshops for students, teachers and school management, social workers and guidance counsellors and parents. Study outcomes will be evaluated through pre- and post-tests. Results Key outcomes of interest among students include sexual health knowledge, awareness of values motivating healthy sexual decisions, understanding and efficacy of sexual communication and intention to use contraception. Among school employees and parents key outcomes include self-efficacy to engage in sexual health discussions with students/children, sexual health knowledge and awareness of Hong Kong community sexual health resources. Conclusions The proposed study will result in the development of a tested school-based culturally relevant comprehensive sexual health education program. Ultimately, this program aims to not only empower adolescents and their trusted adults in building a supportive environment for sexual health promotion but also construct a learning network to generate longitudinal evidence for the effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality education in improving sexual health outcomes. The program has the potential for expansion through widespread adoption in Hong Kong schools to benefit more adolescents and reduce the medical and societal burdens related to crisis pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and sexual abuse.

Medical Student Sexual Health Knowledge Survey

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Warner ◽  
Samantha Carlson ◽  
Renee Crichlow ◽  
Michael W. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Survey ◽  
Sexual Health Knowledge

Sexual health knowledge and behaviour of young Sudanese Queenslanders: a cross-sectional study

Sexual Health ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Dean ◽  
Marion Mitchell ◽  
Donald Stewart ◽  
Joseph Debattista
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviour ◽  
Hiv Knowledge ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Behaviour Score ◽  
Sexual Health Knowledge

Background Forced migration is associated with sexual vulnerability. However, little is known about the sexual health literacy and needs of refugee-background youth post resettlement. Methods: Conducted in partnership with the Queensland Sudanese community, this study used a cross-sectional survey to explore the sexual health knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of a convenience sample of 16- to 24-year-old Sudanese-background youth in Australia (n = 229). Results: Sexually transmissible infection (STI) and HIV knowledge scores were generally low, although they were found to significantly improve the longer participants had lived in Australia (P < 0.001). Female participants reported significantly higher levels of both STI and HIV knowledge compared with the male cohort (P < 0.001). The aggregated sexual risk behaviour score suggests generally low levels of risk-taking behaviour. However, of the 140 sexually active participants, 3.1% reported a STI diagnosis, 9.0% reported sex leading to a pregnancy and 33.1% reported they had experienced unwanted sex. Participants also reported engaging in behaviours such as anal sex (33%) and sharing injecting drug equipment. Conclusions: Patterns of sexual behaviour among this predominately refugee-background group are not dissimilar to those of other young Australians. Nonetheless, the self-reported patterns of risk behaviour combined with the low and inaccurate levels of sexual health knowledge suggest this group of young people remain sexually vulnerable, particularly early within their resettlement experience. Culturally and contextually informed sexual health interventions are needed early within the resettlement experience.

19. Navigating Sexual Health within a Desexualized Body: HIV/AIDS & Disability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual Health Education ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Sexual Health Knowledge ◽  
Hiv Aids

  This research explores commonly overlooked intersections of disability and HIV/AIDS, theorizing that institutional desexualization of disabled students in educational settings is correlated with higher rates of HIV transmission later in life. Working primarily within the fields of disability studies, HIV/AIDS studies, and gender studies, this project targets the gap in research on disability and HIV/AIDS, understanding disabled individuals as being at a heightened risk for HIV transmission yet simultaneously being less likely to receive sexual health education than non-disabled peers, as seen in emerging research by Nora Grace (2003; 2004). This research theorizes a relationship between institutional desexualization and HIV transmission later in life. Specifically, this relationship may exist in the following pattern, beginning with early and continued desexualization of disabled individuals leading to social assumptions of universal asexuality, thus potentially causing a lack of sexual health resources and education due to this assumed sexual inactivity. A lack of sexual health resources may influence higher rates of engagement in high-risk sexual activity due to this lack of sexual health knowledge among disabled individuals, which could thus account for higher rates of HIV transmission within disabled populations. In establishing disabled individuals as at heightened risk for HIV and disrupting the desexualization of disability, I provide recommendations for future research and policy pathways in the aim of further exploring the intersections of HIV/AIDS and disability in order to reduce the rates of HIV transmission within disabled population.

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