To cite: Heathcote JA, Nyholm E. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2013, 39, 14–16. BACKGROUND Good teachers have a major influence on the quality and safety of medical care delivered to patients. As the area of sexual and reproductive health care (SRH) has evolved there has always been a strong commitment to supporting the development of sexual health teachers. The first ...

BACKGROUND To successfully develop and implement school-based sexual health interventions for adolescent girls, such as screening for Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Trichomonas vaginalis, it is important to understand parents' and teachers' attitudes towards sexual health education and acceptability of sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening interventions. METHODS In...

In this issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Marín and colleagues examine sixth-, seventh-and eighth-grade characteristics as predictors of sexual activity in ninth grade among roughly 2,500 students in California (page 76). The study provides empirical evidence of the independent contribution of nonsexual romantic relationships in the seventh grade to the onset of sexual in...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine students' exposure to sex education and identify students' perceptions of accessibility to sexual health advice and their preferences in implementing sex education. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in junior colleges in Mumbai in 2010. The self-administered questionnaire investigated male and female students' (aged 15-17) exposu...

The paper analyzes socio-cultural and psychosocial factors affecting sexual activities and related risk-taking behaviors in Croatian high-school students. It attempts to determine the correlates of sexual activity, early sexual initiation, the number of sexual partners, and the use of contraceptives and condoms. Due to the gender-specific trajectories of sexual socialization and initiation, all...

Although schools have been identified as important settings in which young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) can be promoted, there has been limited research into the role of teachers in delivering sex education programmes. This paper describes findings from a qualitative study of teachers’ beliefs and attitudes towards young people’s SRH in a Ugandan secondary school, and discusses...

Sexual myths differ from one culture to the next, and society next they can even regionally within same culture. The aim of this study is determine sexual orientation university students studying theology. was conducted between February June 2020 at three faculties a state in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. This descriptive with 582 faculties. data were collected by using Personal Information Form, O...

Sex education used to be a very sensitive or taboo subject matter to be taught in Malaysian schools however it has been introduced indirectly to Malaysian Secondary School and Primary School in 1989 and 1994 consecutively. This effort though appears not good enough as crime index statistics of rape cases produced in Malaysian police report showed that steady and double increment cases occur eac...