objective: to determine marital satisfaction and its influencing factors among fertile and infertile women in shahroud. materials and methods: in this comparative study, 1528 participants (511 infertile and1017 fertile women) were evaluated using enrich marital satisfaction scale. data were analyzed using chi-square and t-test. results: a total of 1402 participants (78.7%) had high marital sati...

background: sexual dysfunction is the most common disorder in women. according to the who , s exual education programs are considered as a need. therefore , this study was designed to investigate the effect of educational program on sexual function in women with sexual dysfunction . methods: this randomized trial, was conducted in 2013 on 90 married women by convenient sampling in qazvin, centr...

BACKGROUND Sexually transmitted Infections (STIs) rank among the most important health issues for the people especially the young adults worldwide. Young people tend to engage in sexual activity at younger ages in the past decade than in the 1970s, and 1980s. Knowledge is an essential precursor of sexual risk reduction. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, to produce...

BACKGROUND Adolescents display sexual behaviours and developmental characteristics that place them at risk for Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). Because young people experiment sexually and because of the consequences of indiscriminate sexual activities on the youth, there is the need to mount sex education programmes that are geared towards enlightenment and appropriate education about sex...

For decades, men have sexually harassed and sexually assaulted women on college campuses with impunity. Although Title IX was passed in 1972 to provide sex equality in education, that equality still does not exist. In recent years, campus sexual assault has been recognized as a national epidemic and a manifestation of sex inequality. The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR...

little robust research evidence on the effectiveness of school-based sex education. Many in health promotion argued that well designed, timely sex education could substantially reduce sexual risk taking, but others argued that if delivered too early it promotes greater sexual activity. A third, more sociological, perspective was that sex education cannot override the many other personal and soc...

sexual health and rights indicators provide essential tools for monitoring the status of individuals’ sexual health and its rights, in various countries. this paper discusses sexual health and rights indicators in iran. the indicators under study are derived from similar indicators developed by asian-pacific resource and research center for women, for the 15th anniversary of the international c...