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- Well-designed and well-delivered sexuality education programmes support positive decision-making around sexual health. Evidence shows that young people are more likely to initiate sexual activity later – and when they do have sex, to practice safer sex – when they are better informed about sexuality, sexual relations and their rights.
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May 18, 2023 · Well-designed and well-delivered sexuality education programmes support positive decision-making around sexual health. Evidence shows that young people are more likely to initiate sexual activity later – and when they do have sex, to practice safer sex – when they are better informed about sexuality, sexual relations and their rights.
- Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) gives young people accurate, age-appropriate information about sexuality and their sexual and reproductive...
- Sexuality education equips children and young people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that help them to protect their health, devel...
- Children and adolescents have the right to be educated about themselves and the world around them in an age- and developmentally appropriate manner...
- Many people have a role to play in teaching young people about their sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, whether in formal education, at...
- CSE does not promote masturbation. However, in our documents, WHO recognizes that children start to explore their bodies through sight and touch at...
- There is sound evidence that unequal gender norms begin early in life, with harmful impacts on both males and females. It is estimated that 18%, or...
- By providing children and young people with adequate knowledge about their rights, and what is and is not acceptable behaviour, sexuality education...
- There is clear evidence that abstinence-only programmes – which instruct young people to not have sex outside of marriage – are ineffective in prev...
- Introduction
- Purpose of The Study
- Literature Search and Selection Criteria
- Coding of The Studies For Exploration of Moderators
- Decisions Related to The Computation of Effect Sizes
- Results
- Discussion
Sexually active teenagers are a matter of serious concern. In the past decades many school-based programs have been designed for the sole purpose of delaying the initiation of sexual activity. There seems to be a growing consensus that schools can play an important role in providing youth with a knowledge base which may allow them to make informed ...
The present study consisted of a meta-analytic review of the research literature on the effectiveness of school-based sex education programs in the promotion of abstinent behavior implemented in the past 15 years in the US in the wake of the AIDS epidemic. The goals were to: (1) synthesize the effects of controlled school-based sex education interv...
The first step was to locate as many studies conducted in the US as possible that dealt with the evaluation of sex education programs and which measured abstinent behavior subsequent to an intervention. The primary sources for locating studies were four reference database systems: ERIC, PsychLIT, MEDLINE and the Social Science Citation Index. Branc...
The exploration of study characteristics or features that may be related to variations in the magnitude of effect sizes across studies is referred to as moderator analysis. A moderator variable is one that informs about the circumstances under which the magnitude of effect sizes vary (Miller and Pollock, 1994). The information retrieved from the ar...
Once the pool of studies which met the inclusion criteria was located, studies were examined in an attempt to retrieve the size of the effect associated with each intervention. Since most of the studies did not report any effect size, it had to be estimated based on the significance level and inferential statistics with formulae provided by Rosenth...
The search for school-based sex education interventions resulted in 12 research studies that complied with the criteria to be included in the review and for which effect sizes could be estimated. The overall effect size (d+) estimated from these studies was 0.05 and the 95% confidence interval about the mean included a lower bound of 0.01 to a high...
This review synthesized the findings from controlled sex education interventions reporting on abstinent behavior. The overall mean effect size for abstinent behavior was very small, close to zero. No significant effect was associated to the type of intervention: whether the program was abstinence-oriented or comprehensive—the source of a major cont...
- Mónica Silva
- 2002
Feb 3, 2020 · Results provide evidence for the effectiveness of approaches that address a broad definition of sexual health and take positive, affirming, inclusive approaches to human sexuality. Findings strengthen justification for the widespread adoption of the National Sex Education Standards.
May 16, 2022 · It is an effective health promotion tool. 1 For most formal and informal curriculums across the world, sex education covers topics like “what, when and how” about intimacy and relationships, sexual identity, gender roles, body image, sexual decision-making, sexually transmitted infections (STI), reproductive health, and contraception.
May 1, 2023 · Goldfarb and Lieberman (2021) reviewed 80 US studies of comprehensive sexuality education finding that evidence that effective programs had a broad definition of sexual health, which is positive, inclusive, and affirming.
Although formal sex education varies in content across schools, studies have demonstrated that comprehensive sexuality education programs reduce the rates of sexual activity, sexual risk behaviors (eg, number of partners and unprotected intercourse), STIs, and adolescent pregnancy 11.
Sex education programs that address gender and power are markedly more successful at results on pregnancy and STI reduction than programs that don’t. Furthermore, in the NSES, young people learn about the health benefits of condoms and contraception.
