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Direct linkEllie Bostwick Andres; Edmond Pui Hang Choi; Alice Wai Chi Fung; Kevin Wing Chung Lau; Neda Hei Tung Ng; Monique Yeung; Janice Mary Johnston; Lai Ming Ho – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
This study evaluated the effects of a comprehensive school-based sexuality education programme in enhancing sexual health knowledge and understanding among adolescents, parents and school personnel in six secondary schools in Hong Kong. Study outcomes were evaluated through pre- and post-tests. A total of 1588 students, 40 parents and 271 school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Health Promotion, Outcomes of Education
Irma Romero; Lourdes Campero; Fatima Estrada; Leticia Torres-Ibarra; Aremis Villalobos; Celia Hubert; Raffaela Schiavon – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) aims to prepare adolescents for safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives. The aim of this study was to assess the perspective of key informants regarding CSE content to prevent teenage pregnancy, as well as to identify implementation barriers in predominantly indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico. We…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Prevention, Pregnancy, Adolescents
Maram Almutairi; Erin Hunter – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Lack of sexual health knowledge among Saudi Arabian adolescents suggests the need for investigation into the sexual health education curriculum provided in schools. This study explored the dominant ideologies that shape sexual health education discourse in Saudi Arabia. To date, there have been few analyses of the ideologies underpinning Saudi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Ideology, Discourse Analysis
Bright Mukanga; Siyabonga Blessing Dlamini; Myra Taylor – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) inclusive of cultural values and viewpoints is vital for promoting healthy sexual behaviour among adolescents. Although culture forms a huge part of the adolescent's external environment and influences sexual behaviour, it is not always clear how culture has been conceptualised and integrated into CSE. We…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Student Centered Learning, Culturally Relevant Education
Chinelli, Alice; Salfa, Maria Cristina; Cellini, Andrea; Ceccarelli, Luca; Farinella, Massimo; Rancilio, Laura; Galipò, Rosario; Meli, Paolo; Camposeragna, Antonella; Colaprico, Ludovica; Oldrini, Massimo; Ubbiali, Marco; Caraglia, Anna; Martinelli, Domenico; Mortari, Luigina; Palamara, Anna Teresa; Suligoi, Barbara; Tavoschi, Lara – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Comprehensive sexuality education is an important means of promoting sexual well-being amongst young people and is key to preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). However, sexuality education is not currently included in the formal curriculum in Italian schools. The aim of this study was to develop an inventory of school-based sexuality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Curriculum, Prevention
D'Costa, Belinda; Lobo, Roanna; Ward, James – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Past efforts to address endemic rates of sexually transmissible infections amongst young Aboriginal people living in remote/very remote Australian communities have had limited success. Peer education has been used in youth sexual health promotion but has received limited evaluation and has not been tested in remote Aboriginal settings. The Young…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Sex Education, Cultural Awareness, Sexuality
Heslop, Carl W.; Burns, Sharyn; Lobo, Roanna – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
This paper examines the provision of youth targeted Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) and sexual health interventions in the rural Australian context by examining the perspectives and experiences of a range of community stakeholders. Sixteen participants undertook one-on-one semi structured interviews. Four key themes emerged from the…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Sexuality, Community Health Services, Rural Areas
McKee, Alan – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
The "Girlfriend Guide to Life" was a commercial entertainment product co-edited by an entertainment producer and an academic researcher to reach 14-17-year olds with information they wanted to know about sexual health, in language, genres and designs that they wanted. Entertainment-Education is a familiar approach to distributing…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Adolescents, Sexuality, Health Promotion
Burns, Melanie C. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Condom use among Australian adolescents has been shown to be variable, despite good knowledge among this group about sexual health risks and the promotion of condoms as a simple way to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections. This study explores dominant constructions of condom use within two Australian lifestyle magazines targeted…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Health Behavior, Periodicals, Health Promotion
Ming, Julian; Kelty, Erin; Martin, Karen – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
In remote and very remote Australia, young people engage youth workers in sexual health discussions, often out of necessity due to low access to health services. Youth workers' and youth service managers' perspectives on these interactions and the sexual health training they receive are poorly understood. In this study, youth workers and youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Sexuality, Health Promotion
Wikström, Erika; Eriksson, Eva-Maria; Lindroth, Malin – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
This paper describes the implementation of an educational intervention to enhance sexual health among homeless people by including sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as a part of social work provision with this group. Adult service users in different forms of temporary accommodation were provided with the opportunity to participate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Homeless People, Civil Rights
Hendry, Natalie A.; Brown, Graham; Carman, Marina; Ellard, Jeanette; Wallace, Jack; Dowsett, Gary W. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Young adults, aged 18-30 years, are disproportionally mentioned in sexually transmissible infection surveillance data both in Australia and internationally. This contributes to categorising young adults as an 'at risk' group in health policy. How young adults are framed in policy, and what informs this, have direct implications for policy…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Disproportionate Representation, At Risk Persons
Lee, Gyu Young; Lee, Da Ye – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2019
This study aimed to develop and establish the efficacy of a life skills-based sexuality education programme for junior high school students that focused on prevention. A non-equivalent control-group pretest-posttest design was employed with 105 students in the first-year of junior high school participating. The experimental group received 10…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Knowledge Level, Self Management, Health Promotion
Ingham, Roger – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
This commentary outlines developments regarding Sex and Relationships Education (SRE, akin to Comprehensive Sex Education) in England and Wales over the past 15 years or so. BZgA has been a WHO/Europe collaborating centre for sexual and reproductive health since 2003. In this capacity, BZgA contributes to the development and dissemination of WHO…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy
Hanbury, Ali; Eastham, Rachael – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
Clinical sexual health consultations with young women often focus on avoiding "risks;" namely pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection transmission. They also typically fail to explore how contraception use can impact on the capacity to enjoy sexual relationships. In contrast, this paper argues that sexual pleasure should be a…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Contraception, Health Promotion, Consultation Programs
