Background: Although the importance of sex education for the youth is well documented in the literature around the world, sex education remains controversial in Iran. Patients and Methods: In this qualitative inquiry, we interviewed 41 young women aged 18 - Focus group discussions and individual interviews were used to collect the data. Conventional content analysis was used for data analysis.
Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health: Evidence and Opportunities
Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health: Evidence and Opportunities | ASPE
References Appendix: Other Studies in Progress. Department of Health and Human Services. The goal of the task order is to develop a working knowledge base about the use of new media such as the Internet, social networking sites, cell phones, online video games, and MP3 players among adolescents and the potential impact on their sexual activity. The literature review presented in this paper has the specific goals of 1 fostering an understanding of the types of new media available to adolescents, outlining both the platforms that adolescents use to access media and the media itself, and 2 illuminating the potential relations between new media and adolescent sexual activity. Sexual risk behavior among U. Nearly , young women aged years become pregnant in the United States each year, most of them unintentionally, 1 and half of the roughly 19 million new sexually transmitted infections STIs diagnosed each year are among to year-olds. Over the past decade, new research has identified media as having the potential to serve both roles.
Perceived Advantages and Disadvantages of Sex Education in Young Women: A Qualitative Study
Darwin L. A review of the research on religious influence on adolescent social competence shows that religious commitment is consistently related to increased competence. Research that is most often done relates religiosity to measures of low social competence such as substance abuse, deviant behavior, or self-derogation and reveals an inverse pattern of relationships.
This study was a qualitative investigation into sexual attitudes and behaviours, and contraceptive use among Malaysian youth, based on constructs from the health belief model, theory of reasoned action, and problem behaviour theory. The participants were secondary school students and university undergraduates from Selangor and the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. The study found a lack of knowledge about sexual issues and contraception among the participants. Many engaged in unprotected sexual intercourse and relied on periodic abstinence, natural methods, and traditional folk pregnancy preventive practices.