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Assessing knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward sexually transmitted infections among Baghdad undergraduate students for research-guided sexual health education

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundSexually transmitted infections are common and tend to cause a lot of public misconceptions. This study was conducted to identify knowledge gaps and negative attitudes toward sexually transmitted infections and infected individuals among ...
Ghaith Al-Gburi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

“It falls on all our shoulders”: Overcoming Barriers to Delivering Sex Education in West Texas Schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND: Many racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities exist in rates of teen birth and sexually transmitted infections. Increasing access to comprehensive sex education is one risk reduction strategy for these outcomes, yet access to and ...
Leos, Cristina, Wiley, David
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Sex for seniors: how physicians discuss older adult’s sexuality

open access: yesIsrael Journal of Health Policy Research, 2020
Background This study examined physicians’ perspectives on sexuality in later life. Methods In-depth interviews were conducted among 38 physicians with various specialties and they were asked to discuss sexuality in later life within the medical context.
Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘[A]nd when I came to her I found she was not a virgin’: A contextual re-reading of Deuteronomy 22:13–21 among Nigerian Christians

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2023
The traditional African society attached special value to female virginity, associating it with personal purity and honour. But today in Nigeria, virginity has lost its importance to premarital sex.
Solomon O. Ademiluka
doaj   +1 more source

Sexual health literacy and preventive behaviors among middle-school students in a rural area during the COVID-19 situation: A mixed methods study [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Promotion Perspectives, 2022
Background: This study explored the association between sexual health literacy (SHL) and preventive behaviors of pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among middle-school students during the COVID-19 outbreak to aid in the development of ...
Mereerat Manwong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Female forms of occupational names (feminativa) – is there a need to use them in sex education?

open access: yesPodstawy Edukacji, 2022
The paper at issue presents the social functioning of Polish female forms of occupational names (feminativa), as well as their role in the process of sex education, also in relation to perpetration of gender stereotypes. In the first part of the paper, a
Weronika Klon   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Virginity is a virtue: prevent early sex’: teacher perceptions of sex education in a Ugandan secondary school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sex education is a politically contentious issue in many countries, and there are numerous, competing ideologies relating to the most appropriate methods to teach young people about sexual and reproductive health.
Aggleton, Peter, Iyer, Padmini
core   +1 more source

“Nothing about us without us”: The ideals and realities of participatory action research with people with an intellectual disability

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
Undertaking participatory research with people with intellectual disabilities is becoming a much-discussed issue. Some researchers and self-advocates argue strongly that only participatory research can produce useful, honest research which assists people
Lyn Harrison   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opening a portal to pleasure based sexual and reproductive health around the globe; a qualitative analysis and best practice development study

open access: yesSexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023
Pleasure is often left out of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) interventions. The expanding evidence base suggests that the inclusion of pleasure can improve SRHR outcomes and increase safer sex practices.
Rhiana Mills   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sociocultural and Legal Aspects of Violence Against Men

open access: yesJournal of Psychosexual Health, 2019
Domestic violence is always discussed in relation to women. Man is always considered as the perpetrator. However, because of the socioeconomic changes affecting the family structure in recent times, domestic violence is not limited to women only.
Sanjay Deshpande
doaj   +1 more source

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