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Direct linkSzucs, Leigh E.; Demissie, Zewditu; Steiner, Riley J.; Brener, Nancy D.; Lindberg, Laura; Young, Emily; Rasberry, Catherine N. – Health Education Research, 2023
Information about state and local education policies regarding sexually transmitted infections, including human immunodeficiency virus, and unintended pregnancy prevention is available, yet less is known about school-level implementation of such policies. We examine trends in the percentage of US secondary schools teaching sexual and reproductive…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Sex Education, Required Courses, Educational Trends
Jennings, J. M.; Howard, S.; Perotte, C. L. – Health Education Research, 2014
This study evaluated the impact of the Teen Prevention Education Program (Teen PEP), a peer-led sexuality education program designed to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV among high school students. The study design was a quasi-experimental, nonrandomized design conducted from May 2007 to May…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Program Evaluation, Adolescents
Salazar, Laura F.; Bradley, Erin L. P.; Younge, Sinead N.; Daluga, Nichole A.; Crosby, Richard A.; Lang, Delia L.; DiClemente, Ralph J. – Health Education Research, 2010
This study sought to determine the perspective taken toward understanding adolescent sexual risk behaviors and related biological outcomes (i.e. pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases) since 1990. We content analyzed 324 abstracts representing observational research published between January 1990 and December 2007 for inclusion of ecological…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Rhetoric, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Pregnancy
Sales, Jessica M.; Spitalnick, Josh; Milhausen, Robin R.; Wingood, Gina M.; Diclemente, Ralph J.; Salazar, Laura F.; Crosby, Richard A. – Health Education Research, 2009
This study examined the psychometric properties of a new scale to measure adolescents' worry regarding outcomes of risky sexual behavior (i.e. sexually transmitted infections, including HIV [STI/HIV], and unintended pregnancy). The 10-item worry about sexual outcomes (WASO) scale, resulting in two subscales STI/HIV worry and pregnancy worry, was…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Females, Self Efficacy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
de Visser, Richard – Health Education Research, 2005
The aims of this exploratory qualitative study were to increase our understanding of heterosexual young adults knowledge and beliefs about sexually transmitted infections (STIs) other than HIV, to explore their beliefs about the factors that influence condom use for STI prevention, and to explore their ideas about how best to promote condom use…
Descriptors: Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Pregnancy, Young Adults
