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Sexual abstinence and the Sexual Abstinence Behavior Scale

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2003
Nurses may choose to promote sexual abstinence, particularly when they are working with young adolescents. However, it is difficult to know how to intervene because sexual abstinence has not been well defined in the literature. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometrics of a four-item measure of sexual abstinence behavior (the SABS ...
Anne E, Norris, Leslie F, Clark, Sondra, Magnus   +2 more
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Sexually Abstinent Adolescents

Journal of Adolescent Research, 2004
This study was a longitudinal follow-up of 697 early adolescents from 20 schools in Missouri, investigating students who, in 1997, indicated on a survey of sexual attitudes and behaviors that they had not had sexual intercourse. They completed the Reasons for Abstinence Scale (RAS) by identifying those items that were reasons why they had not had sex.
Lynn Blinn-Pike, Thomas J. Berger, John Hewett, Jacob Oleson   +3 more
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Decreasing postpartum sexual abstinence time

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1976
Postpartum sexual abstinence time can be safely shortened for most patients when episiotomy repair is done meticulously with fine PGA suture on small needles. The time preferred by patients for resumption of intercourse seems to be between the second and third postpartum week.
A C, Richardson, J B, Lyon, E E, Graham, N L, Williams   +3 more
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Negotiating Shame, Silence, Abstinence, and Period Sex: Women’s Shift from Harmful Memorable Messages about Reproductive and Sexual Health

American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2020
Early messages about reproductive and sexual health influence personal identities, health behaviors, and ongoing perceptions of sex and sexuality. Women are often socialized with negatively-valenced messages toward understanding their reproductive and ...
Jacqueline N. Gunning, Angela Cooke-Jackson, V. Rubinsky   +2 more
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The correlates of sexual experience and reasons for abstinence among Asian Americans.

Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 2020
OBJECTIVE This study examines the sexual socialization experiences of Asian American emerging adults by assessing the content and frequency of parent and peer sexual communication and their links to sexual experience and reasons for abstinence.
S. Trinh, Janna L. Kim
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Sexually Abstinent African American Adolescent Females' Descriptions of Abstinence

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2003
Purpose: To describe sexual abstinence from the perspective of abstinent African American female adolescents.Design: Descriptive qualitative.Methods: Data were collected from 14 sexually abstinent, African American adolescent girls during two semi‐structured interviews. Data were collected using the life history method and were analyzed in the style
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Spiritual Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock.

The American Historical Review, 1994
(1994). Spiritual marriage: Sexual abstinence in medieval wedlock. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 1030-1031.
Penelope D. Johnson, Dyan Elliott
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Promotion of Sexual Abstinence

Southern Medical Journal, 1995
The prevention of unplanned pregnancies has become a national public health priority. To assure that every newborn child in America is planned and wanted, three strategies are to be implemented: expansion of school-based sex education, expansion of free condom distribution, and expansion of the role of school-based health clinics.
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Texas Abstinence Educators' Self-Efficacy to Motivate Youth Sexual Abstinence

American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2007
Abstract Authors examined self-efficacy to motivate abstinent behavior (among youth) in a sample of instructors teaching abstinence-only-until-marriage education in Texas (N = 104). Sixty-one percent of the sample had been trained/certified to teach abstinence education.
Catherine N. Rasberry, Patricia Goodson, Eric R. Buhi, B. E. Buzz Pruitt, Kelly Wilson, Sandra Suther   +5 more
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Effect of sexual arousal on semen parameters during abstinence

Andrologia, 2022
Semen analysis and physical examination are performed while first evaluation for patients with male infertility. Alcohol, smoking and dietary habits can affect the semen parameters. This study aimed to evaluate whether semen parameters are changed with sexual arousal. After excluding, 100 patients with ages of 18-45 were included to the study.
Zülfü Sertkaya, Serkan Akan, Harun Özdemir, Kemal Ertaş, Emre Korkmaz, Emre Tokuç, Abdulmuttalip Şimşek   +6 more
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