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Byansi, William; Howell, Tyriesa Howard; Filiatreau, Lindsey M.; Nabunya, Proscovia; Kaiser, Nina; Kasson, Erin; Ssewamala, Fred M.; Cavazos-Rehg, Patricia – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Adolescent girls in Uganda have four-fold HIV infections than adolescent boys. Several barriers to accessing comprehensive sexual health education exist for adolescent girls in Uganda, including unequal, social, and economic statuses, limited access to education and health care services, discrimination, and violence. Objective: This…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Foreign Countries, Sexuality
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Rojo, Elizabeth M.; Taylor, Kelly D.; McFarland, Willi – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Despite widespread availability of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and recommendations for routine use, awareness and uptake of HPV vaccination are not universal. We assessed self-reported history of HPV vaccination in a sample of low-income men and women recruited from the community using respondent-driven sampling as part of the National HIV…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Urban Areas, At Risk Persons, Low Income Groups
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Samuel O. Master; Samantha Garbers; Laura Lynch; David L. Bell; Marina Catallozzi; John Santelli – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) allows for informed and healthy decisions. College students often lack understanding of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Conversations and Pizza (CAP), an interactive curriculum, was designed to address gaps in CSE and improve SRH outcomes. Participants: 66 fraternity affiliated undergraduate…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Undergraduate Students, Fraternities, Knowledge Level
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Shemeka Thorpe; Paige Orphé; Gabriella Pitcher; Kendall McCleod; Natalie Malone; Danelle Stevens-Watkins – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
The rise in opioid misuse coincides with increased sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV incidence. Transactional sex is an under-researched phenomenon among Black Americans who misuse opioids, and may increase their risk of STI or HIV transmission. Given the disproportionate impact of the opioid epidemic on Black Americans and the risks…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Drug Abuse, Narcotics, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E.; Miech, Richard A. – Institute for Social Research, 2020
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of American adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 60. The study is funded under a series of investigator-initiated, competing research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and has been conducted annually by the University of Michigan's Institute for…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Behavior, Communicable Diseases
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Tshomo, Ugyen; Sherab, Kezang; Howard, John – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
Sex and sexual health remain taboo topics in Bhutan. Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs) are still associated with social stigma, embarrassment and denial, and knowledge of sexual health among young people does not equate to safer practice. This study employed longitudinal survey method to explore the level of trainee teachers' knowledge,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
Siderio, Brianne – ProQuest LLC, 2023
STIs in youth in New Jersey is a growing concern. According to New Jersey' Public Health Data Resource (2020), the total number of STIs in youth from age 15-24 totals 19,698. The current STIs-related sex education programs vary widely in New Jersey in terms of scope, the accuracy of content, emphasis, and effectiveness (Thrive New Jersey…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Gollub, Erica L.; Beauvais, Shirley; Roye, Carol – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Male involvement in contraceptive practice remains low. Family planning and pediatric health associations have recommended an emphasis on long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) in clinical counseling with adolescents and young adults, raising concerns about the resulting adverse impact on sexually transmitted infection (STI)…
Descriptors: Males, Contraception, Health Behavior, Sexuality
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Tenkorang, Eric Y. – Youth & Society, 2022
This study used the Information Motivation Behavioral (IMB) skills model to examine condom use among rural youth in Edo State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 4,801 youth aged 11 to 17 years attending Junior Secondary Schools. Analysis focused on 1,749 (Male = 1,134, Female = 615) sexually active youth. Random-effects ordinal logit models were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Behavior, Sexuality
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Lindley, Lisa L.; Sharif, A'isha M.; Chowdhury, Tasnuva – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at unprecedented levels; yet most college students have never been tested. Offering asymptomatic individuals the option to collect their own samples for STI testing is an effective strategy to increase testing coverage. This study explores students' perceptions of self-collection services.…
Descriptors: College Students, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Student Attitudes, Intention
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Owino, Walter Odera; Asakhulu, Newton Mukholwe; Mwania, Jonathan Muema; Mwanza, Rose – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
Infection with sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies are risks associated with adolescents' risky sexual behavior. Mental models of attachment relationships influence behavior and may influence adolescents' involvement in sexual activities that are risky. This study explored whether attachment styles predicted adolescents'…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents
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Raffaella Ravinetto; Joyce Adhiambo; Joshua Kimani – Research Ethics, 2024
Research represents an essential component of the response to infectious disease outbreaks and to other public health emergencies, whether they are localised, of international concern, or global. Research conducted in such contexts also comes with particular ethics challenges, the awareness of which has significantly grown following the Ebola…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Ethics, Emergency Programs, COVID-19
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Firkey, Madison K.; Sheinfil, Alan Z.; Woolf-King, Sarah E. – Health Education Journal, 2022
Objective: College students are among the age-group most affected by sexually transmitted infections, yet few evidence-based interventions have proved effective in increasing college student condom use. The goal of this study was to determine which combination of referent proximity and width of discrepancy between perceived and actual norms within…
Descriptors: Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sexuality, Intimacy
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Casola, Allison R.; Matson, Pamela A.; Jones, Resa M. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Determine the relationship characteristics, sexual health attitudes, and demographic factors associated with dual contraceptive use among college students. Participants: September-October 2018 via campus email, we recruited College of Public Health students attending a large, urban, public university (N= 424). Methods: Respondents…
Descriptors: College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Sexuality, Health Behavior
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Gunning, Jacqueline N.; Cooke-Jackson, Angela; Rubinsky, Valerie – 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 sexual health. However, scholarship emphasizes a communicative approach for socializing intimate…
Descriptors: Females, Sex Education, Sexuality, Health Behavior
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