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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Sexual Health Education"”.
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Assessing senior baccalaureate nursing students’ attitudes toward sexual health education as a nursing responsibility following a family life and sexual health education intervention
… approximately one in four adolescents has a sexually transmitted infection. Early sexual health education provided by specially trained educators has been shown to decrease early sexual debut and lower risk behaviors in adolescents. Approximately 80% of registered nurses feel sexual health …
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Sexual health matters! learning for life: mapping client need and professional sexual health education for nurses in England
Sexual health matters! This motif underpins the entire thesis. With survey responses from university educators and focus group encounters with clinical professionals undertaking the UK-wide Sexual Health Skills course, the study explores ways in which specific discourses pertaining to sexual health …
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Sexual Health Education (SHE) in Ontario: Exploring a Sample of the Public Discourse Surrounding the 2015 Update to Ontario’s Human Development and Sexual Health Curriculum
In an increasingly hypersexualized culture, Canadian youth face challenges (e.g., increased risk for unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, social ostracization and bullying, and mental health challenges) associated with sexuality and sexual health (Brady & Halpern-Felsher, 2007; …
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California School Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude, and Intention to Participate in Sexuality Education
… critical need exists to provide adolescents with sexual health education as demonstrated by our nation's position in having the highest adolescent pregnancy rates among all the developed nations. The critical need is further pronounced by California's changing demographic profile of young Latinos …
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Advocating for Women's Health: The Importance of Family Planning Clinics
… clinics as their first entry point into the health care system, and one they consider their usual source of care. Each year, publicly funded family planning services prevent 1.94 million unintended pregnancies, including 400,000 teen pregnancies (Guttmacher Institute, 2010). Services such as …
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Exploring Black-Canadian parent-youth sex communication
… at a greater risk of HIV infection due to their sexual risk behaviours. Many international studies indicate that open parent-youth sex communication may counter the potentially negative impact of peers, mass media and inadequate sexual health education programs on youth sexual risk behaviour. …
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LATINA IMMIGRANTS, HIV, AND THEIR EXPIERENCES WITH HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR HOME COUNTRY
… population and available culturally sensitive health care has not been well examined. There is a scarcity of research available that examines factors specific to the Latina population that contribute to HIV/AIDS education, screening, and care, despite the vulnerable state of Latinas for …
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The community's perceptions regarding adolescents sexual health in Tshiungani Village, Mutale Municipality of Limpopo Province
Background: Adolescent sexual health is fundamental to the physical and emotional health, and well-being of individuals, couples, and families, as well as the social and economic development of communities and countries. The purpose and the aim of this study was to explore and describe the …
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Proposal for a Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Understanding gender, sex, and sexuality is required in order to be a competent, patient-centered physician, and, therefore, inclusion of these topics in undergraduate medical education is essential. Current medical education is not producing physicians equipped to manage the complaints and issues …
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Secondary schooling for girls in rural Uganda: challenges, opportunities and emerging identities
… that were associated with secondary level education. This study includes an extensive analysis of the degree to which the global objective of gender equity in education, prioritized in UNESCO’s Education For All initiative as well as the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, is …
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An Examination of the Relationships between Safer Sex Education and Intentions to Practice Safer Sex in Undergraduate Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
Canadian rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are increasing, with young adults being at higher risk. Safer sex practices, including barrier use, can decrease the risk of acquiring STIs. This exploratory study utilized a cross-sectional, quantitative design to investigate if any …
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Competent or Not? Young people's accounts of sexual readiness
Young people’s sexual health is a significant public health concern and associated with risks of unintended outcomes. Yet their voices are largely missing in the design of sexual health services, policy and education programmes. This study explored young people’s subjective understandings of their …
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¡Hay que hablar sobre esto! [We need to talk about this]: Exploring the Relationship Between Contraceptive and Consent Knowledge, Sexual Self-efficacy and Psychological Distress Among Latino Adolescents
… adolescents struggle with high rates of mental health issues (Bitsko et al., 2022; Merikangas et al., 2010). Some studies support that psychological distress plays a role in teens’ sexual behavior and sexual self-efficacy (Lehrer et al., 2006; Seth et al., 2009; Seth et al., 2011). Yet, few …
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More than an "Unhappy Object": The Ethical, Relational and Pedagogical Possibilities of Talking with Young People about Pornography
… continued omission as a topic in contemporary sexual health education curricula. But what happens when we actually talk to young people about their relationship to pornography? What do we learn about how young people engage with pornography, and how might these conversations challenge the …
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Sexual Pleasure and Enhancement: Implications for College Sexuality Education
… purpose of this study was to determine what sexual activities and behaviors college students are participating in, including the use of sexual enhancement products during both partnered and solo sexual activities. Pleasure and sexual satisfaction remain largely absent from today's sexuality …
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Opening up the gendered box on the right to choose: young men’s experiences and decision-making in relation to an unintended pregnancy in their lives
… at young women (United Nations (UN), 2006; World Health Organisation (WHO) 2011; WHO, 2020). Within this global policy initiative to reduce unintended pregnancies, however, organisations such as the WHO and the UN recognise that adolescent men’s involvement in decisions in relation to preventing …
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Adolescent knowledge about sexual health and factors influencing use of such knowledge in the greater Stellenbosch area
Background: Adolescence is a critical period for sexual exploration, often marked by a lack of accurate information, as sexuality remains a sensitive topic for many parents, guardians and teachers. Inadequate sexual health knowledge can lead to high adolescent pregnancy rates and school dropout. …
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Durham Region healthy sex youthality project: youth's perspectives of sexual health needs in Durham Region
According to Durham Region Public Health Department, 40% of youth, aged 15-19 years, living in Durham Region said that they had engaged in sexual intercourse in the last year, with 570 youth becoming pregnant. In Durham Region 2.3/100,000 youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years are infected with …
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Baseline Assessment of Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health in Yantaló, San Martin, Peru
… and child mortality and to the cycle of ill-health and poverty world-wide (WHO). In Yantaló, many young mothers are forced to terminate their schooling in order to care for their children, giving them fewer opportunities for financial independence in a society with a strong machismo culture. …
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Women's sexual health in Saudi Arabia: A focused ethnographic study
… study was conducted to describe how women and health care professionals perceive sexual health and services that are currently provided in Saudi Arabia. Background: At present, the worldwide health authority, in the form of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has drawn great attention to the …
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