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Keizur, Erin M.; Bristow, Claire C.; Baik, Yeonsoo; Klausner, Jeffrey D. – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: Our goal was to evaluate knowledge and testing preferences for "Chlamydia trachomatis" (CT), "Neisseria gonorrhoeae" (NG), and "Trichomonas vaginalis" (TV) infections. Participants: We surveyed female undergraduates attending the University of California, Los Angeles, in May 2017. Methods: Using an online…
Descriptors: Females, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Knowledge Level, Undergraduate Students
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Porter, Sallie; Mimm, Nancy – Infants and Young Children, 2017
Zika virus infection-associated microcephaly has generated public health and media concern. Unsettling images emerging from Brazil of infants with abnormally small heads have raised concern among women of childbearing age, international travelers, government officials, and health care professionals. The World Health Organization declared the most…
Descriptors: Infants, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy
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Amentie, Siyane Aniley; Öhrn, Elisabet; Fereja, Temesgen – Ethnography and Education, 2022
This article reports on an ethnographic study to understand the practices of sexuality education (SE) in relation to what young girls want to learn in a primary school Ethiopia. This is done by means of school observations, FGD with female students and interviews with SE teachers. The study shows the observed SE focuses mainly on issues of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Females, Elementary School Students
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Harris, Tanisha L.; Shields, Ashleigh; DeMaria, Andrea L. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Increases in STD cases in Indiana communities have led to questions about the sexual health of adolescents. School-based sex education can help teenagers adopt healthy attitudes and behaviours. Effective sex education programmes should involve learning from adolescents and young people about their health needs. Student voice, however, is generally…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Health Behavior, Student Attitudes
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D'Costa, Belinda; Lobo, Roanna; Ward, James – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Past efforts to address endemic rates of sexually transmissible infections amongst young Aboriginal people living in remote/very remote Australian communities have had limited success. Peer education has been used in youth sexual health promotion but has received limited evaluation and has not been tested in remote Aboriginal settings. The Young…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Sex Education, Cultural Awareness, Sexuality
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Lopez, Susanna V.; Leffingwell, Thad R. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between unrealistic optimism (UO) and risky sexual behavior (RSB) and related consequences in a college student sample. Participants believed they had significantly lower "personal" risk of engagement in alcohol-related sexual activity, unintended pregnancy, and STIs than the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Sexuality, Health Behavior, Risk
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Massicotte, Leslie M. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
Many sexuality educators in the United States have noted that current sex education models do not meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student body, and they have begun advocating for anti-racist sex education. Many sexuality instructors, however, work in public schools that require the use of prevention-focused, evidence-based sexuality…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Student Diversity, Racism, Public Schools
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Mertoglu, Hatice – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2019
This research aims to determine science student teachers' views and conceptions of the interdisciplinary sexual health education course. Also, the current study inferiorly purposes to eliminate their misconceptions after the course. Data were obtained from in-class student products, course evaluation forms and course field notes. Within a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Student Attitudes, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Lederer, Alyssa M.; Sheena, Brittney S. – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) disproportionately affect young people and can result in severe health consequences. Accurate knowledge about STIs can play an important role in STI prevention. Prior quantitative research has found that college students' knowledge about STIs is insufficient. However, there is a dearth of…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, College Students, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Student Attitudes
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Fields, Errol L.; Thornton, Nicole; Long, Amanda; Morgan, Anthony; Uzzi, Mudia; Arrington-Sanders, Renata; Jennings, Jacky M. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2021
Young Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (YBMSM) carry a disproportionate HIV burden perpetuated by exposure to sexual networks with higher untreated HIV prevalence and incidence. In Baltimore, these sexual networks include high utilization of geosocial networking apps (GSN-apps). Our prior work suggests these apps can be…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention
Evans, Jennifer Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Approximately 60-80% of college students report engaging in a hookup at some point during their college career. College students find hookup partners through traditional meeting contexts, but dating apps and social media have become a new resource to identify potential sexual partners. Because males are the ones who physically wear condoms, safer…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Gender Differences, 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, 2018
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 supported 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…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Behavior, Communicable Diseases
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Johnson, Erika K. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2017
This study explores how positive media messages about sex can lead to better sexual health among young adults (college students at a large university, N = 228) by de-emphasizing sensation seeking, condom embarrassment, and stigma. Employing social learning theory and normative influence frameworks, the research found that college-age women had…
Descriptors: College Students, Males, Females, Disease Control
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Saftner, Melissa A.; Pruitt, Kelsey S.; McRee, Annie-Laurie – Journal of School Nursing, 2021
Communication with sexual partners about protection against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is associated with safer sexual behaviors among general populations of youth, but little is known about partner communication among American Indian youth. We assessed the prevalence of adolescents' communication with sexual partners about STI…
Descriptors: Contraception, Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Behavior
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Whiting, Willandra; Pharr, Jennifer R.; Buttner, Mark P.; Lough, Nancy L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Traditional undergraduate college students in the United States are in the age range that experiences the highest rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and are vulnerable to contracting STIs. Increasing condom use among college students is a prevention strategy to reduce the spread of STIs. Aim: The purpose of this systematic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Promotion, Undergraduate Students
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