{"title":"Teachers' attitudes towards adolescent sexuality and life skills education in rural South Africa.","authors":"Kelley Alison Smith, Abigail Harrison","doi":"10.1080/14681811.2012.677206","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14681811.2012.677206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the attitudes of 43 teachers and school administrators towards sex education, young people's sexuality and their communities in 19 secondary schools in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and how these attitudes affect school-based HIV prevention and sex education. In interviews, teachers expressed judgemental attitudes towards young people's sexuality and pregnant students, and focused on girls' perceived irresponsible behaviour instead of strategies to minimise HIV risk. Despite general awareness of the HIV epidemic, few teachers perceived it as an immediate threat, and teachers' own HIV risk was infrequently acknowledged. Teachers perceived themselves to have higher personal standards and moral authority than members of the communities and schools they served. Male administrators' authority to determine school policies and teachers' attitudes towards sexuality fundamentally affect the content and delivery of school-based sexuality education and HIV prevention activities. Opportunities to create a supportive educational environment for students and for female teachers are frequently missed. Improving teachers' efficacy to deliver impartial, non-judgemental and accurate information about sex and HIV is essential, as are efforts to acknowledge and address their own HIV risks.</p>","PeriodicalId":47510,"journal":{"name":"Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3646251/pdf/nihms462874.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31513000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Don't cross a man's feet': Hmong parent-daughter communication about sexual health.","authors":"Laurie L Meschke, Kim Dettmer","doi":"10.1080/14681811.2011.609038","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14681811.2011.609038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parent-adolescent communication about sexual health is one strategy to encourage healthy adolescent sexual behaviour. However, this literature has largely overlooked immigrant families. Hmong youth, identified as facing extreme challenges to parent-adolescent communication, are considered. Content analysis was used to examine parent-adolescent communication about sexual health for forty-four pregnant or parenting Hmong adolescent girls. The minority of adolescents recalled an actual conversation about sexual health in their families with mothers most often identified as the source. Their stories reflect discussions about abstinence, puberty, pregnancy, and STIs - with much information being inaccurate. With culture being a recurrent theme, communication was reported to be hindered by cultural traditions, comfort level, applicability, and perceived consequences. The results identify opportunities for culturally-relevant sex education materials in the Hmong community.</p>","PeriodicalId":47510,"journal":{"name":"Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358113/pdf/nihms-324879.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30650194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helen P Koo, Allison Rose, M Nabil El-Khorazaty, Qing Yao, Renee R Jenkins, Karen M Anderson, Maurice Davis, Leslie R Walker
{"title":"Evaluation of a randomized intervention to delay sexual initiation among fifth-graders followed through the sixth grade.","authors":"Helen P Koo, Allison Rose, M Nabil El-Khorazaty, Qing Yao, Renee R Jenkins, Karen M Anderson, Maurice Davis, Leslie R Walker","doi":"10.1080/14681811.2011.538146","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14681811.2011.538146","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>US adolescents initiate sex at increasingly younger ages, yet few pregnancy prevention interventions for children as young as 10-12 years old have been evaluated. Sixteen Washington, DC schools were randomly assigned to intervention versus control conditions. Beginning in 2001/02 with fifth-grade students and continuing during the sixth grade, students completed pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys each school year. Each year, the intervention included 10-13 classroom sessions related to delaying sexual initiation. Linear hierarchical models compared outcome changes between intervention and control groups by gender over time. Results show the intervention significantly decreased a rise over time in the anticipation of having sex in the next 12 months among intervention boys versus control boys, but it had no other outcome effects. Among girls, the intervention had no significant outcome effects. One exception is that for both genders, compared with control students, intervention students increased their pubertal knowledge. In conclusion, a school-based curriculum to delay sexual involvement among fifth-grade and sixth-grade high-risk youths had limited impact. Additional research is necessary to outline effective interventions, and more intensive, comprehensive interventions may be required to counteract adverse circumstances in students' lives and pervasive influences toward early sex.ClinicalTrials. gov identifier: NCT00341471.</p>","PeriodicalId":47510,"journal":{"name":"Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2011-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158595/pdf/nihms294209.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30090314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leslie R Walker, Allison Rose, Claudia Squire, Helen P Koo
{"title":"Parents' views on sexual debut among pre-teen children in Washington, DC.","authors":"Leslie R Walker, Allison Rose, Claudia Squire, Helen P Koo","doi":"10.1080/14681810801981126","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14681810801981126","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>OBJECTIVE: Present US parents' perceptions about factors leading to early intercourse and strategies for overcoming them. METHODS: Conducted analysis of eight focus groups with 78 male and female African-American and Hispanic caregivers of fifth-graders and sixth-graders (ages 10-12). RESULTS: Participants gave the following primary reasons for early sexual activity: lack of structured activities, adult supervision, and communication; and influence of peers, society, and media. They suggested strategies targeting these reasons, and the need for parents, schools, and the community to work together. CONCLUSION: Incorporating parents' perspectives would help tailor interventions to the needs of the target population and increase parental support.</p>","PeriodicalId":47510,"journal":{"name":"Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2008-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14681810801981126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30090315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}