Background and Aims: High-risk sexual behaviors are of the most important risky behaviours in the area of sexual and reproductive health. It seems that educational programs based on health behavioural change theories are of the most basic measures in prevention of social damages. Therefore, the present study was carried out to determine the effect of a training...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a disease that has spread all over the world. Premarital sexual behavior driven by desire with opposite sex or same sex. Talking about sexuality and reproductive health still taboo subject for teenagers, so children will seek it from various sources, one of which social media not information can be accounted for. This study aims to collect scientific evidence on impact ...

OBJECTIVES School-based sex education is a cornerstone of HIV prevention for adolescents who continue to bear a disproportionally high HIV burden globally. We systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed the existing evidence for school-based sex education interventions in low- and middle-income countries to determine the efficacy of these interventions in changing HIV-related knowledge and risk b...

OBJECTIVE Test a novel intervention to help sexually experienced girls increase abstinence behaviors and attitudes. DESIGN A quasi-experimental repeated measures design using qualitative and quantitative data. SETTING Two alternative public schools. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-three females whose mean age was 16 and who were 79% African American participated. Most (79%) had experienced a pregnanc...

CONTEXT African American adolescents are at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but which behavioral interventions to reduce risk are most effective and who should conduct them is not known. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of abstinence and safer-sex HIV risk-reduction interventions on young inner-city African American adolescents...

Family scholars have focused on the onset of sexual activity early in the life course, but little is known about the cessation of sexual activity in relationships in later life. We use event-history analysis techniques and logistic regression to identify the correlates of sexual inactivity among older married men and women. We analyze data for 1,502 married people from the National Social Life,...

PURPOSE To explore the effect of perceptions of friends' romantic and physical behaviors on adolescent sexual behavior and the relative influence of friends' sexual behaviors and maternal attitudes on age at first sex. METHODS Using longitudinal data collected from 1943 adolescents who have never had sex at baseline in Cebu, Philippines, logistic regression assessed whether adolescents' perce...