Assessing sexual health literacy: a systematic review of measures.

IF 1.8 4区 医学 Q3 INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Sexual health Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1071/SH24042
Tiffany Chenneville, Morgan Haskett, Kaitlyn Ligman, Sarah M Gardy, Camielle Crampsie, Trevor A Hart
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Abstract

Sexual health literacy refers to the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform decisions and actions related to sexual health. Given the importance of sexual health literacy for improving health outcomes, it is prudent to identify sexual health literacy measures that can be used by healthcare providers, scholars and educators. To address this need, we used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses to conduct a systematic review. This review examined 12 databases to identify existing sexual health literacy self-report scales, subscales or individual items that were available in English, developed for scale validation purposes, and published between 2002, the year the World Health Organization convened experts to provide a clear working definition of sexual health, and 2022. We conducted a risk of bias and quality assurance assessment of the nine articles that met inclusion criteria, and coded articles along the ten components of a sexual health model used as the theoretical framework. Findings revealed mixed quality of identified measures. None of the measures received positive ratings on all eight criteria assessed or addressed all components of the sexual health model. The results from this systematic review suggest the need for a culturally sensitive, valid and reliable scale to assess sexual health literacy that can be used by sexual health professionals to promote sexual health and to reduce deleterious sexual health outcomes.

评估性健康素养:对各项措施的系统审查。
性健康素养指的是发现、理解和使用信息和服务的能力,从而为与性健康有关的决策和行动提供信息。鉴于性健康知识普及对改善健康结果的重要性,确定卫生保健提供者、学者和教育工作者可以使用的性健康知识普及措施是谨慎的。为了满足这一需求,我们使用了系统评价和元分析的首选报告项来进行系统评价。本综述检查了12个数据库,以确定现有的性健康素养自我报告量表、子量表或单个项目,这些量表是为量表验证目的而开发的,并在2002年(世界卫生组织召集专家提供性健康的明确工作定义)和2022年之间发布。我们对符合纳入标准的九篇文章进行了偏倚风险和质量保证评估,并根据作为理论框架的性健康模型的十个组成部分对文章进行了编码。调查结果显示,确定的措施质量参差不齐。没有一项措施在评估的全部八项标准上获得正面评价,也没有一项措施涉及性健康模式的所有组成部分。这一系统综述的结果表明,需要一种文化上敏感、有效和可靠的量表来评估性健康素养,性健康专业人员可以使用该量表来促进性健康和减少有害的性健康结果。
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Sexual health
Sexual health 医学-传染病学
CiteScore
2.30
自引率
12.50%
发文量
121
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Sexual Health publishes original and significant contributions to the fields of sexual health including HIV/AIDS, Sexually transmissible infections, issues of sexuality and relevant areas of reproductive health. This journal is directed towards those working in sexual health as clinicians, public health practitioners, researchers in behavioural, clinical, laboratory, public health or social, sciences. The journal publishes peer reviewed original research, editorials, review articles, topical debates, case reports and critical correspondence. Officially sponsored by: The Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine of RACP Sexual Health Society of Queensland Sexual Health is the official journal of the International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI), Asia-Pacific, and the Asia-Oceania Federation of Sexology.
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