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PubMed1995

Comparative study on family life education, sex education and human sexuality.

Under UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) EPD auspices, a comparative study on family life education, sex education and human sexuality is being undertaken by EPD in collaboration with UNESCO Regional Offices covering four regions of the world--Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, and Arab States. Over the past 20 years, some 90 countries in the world have implemented population education programs. These programs follow different conceptual frames of reference based on predominant national problems and thrusts. Many of these have included family life education, sexuality and human reproductive issues. In the light of emerging issues and problems, it has been urged that key concepts and contents on family life education should be revised and updated accordingly, taking into account the specificity of sociocultural contexts. Before undertaking the revision and updating of contents, an analysis of the contents of existing national and regional training and teaching/learning materials in the four regions is currently being undertaken. The results of these analyses will serve as basis for the reconceptualization of population education/family life education within the new EPD philosophy, taking into account the emerging needs in the areas of information, training, and educational materials development. The studies which are currently under preparation look into the following: (i) the justifications for implementing family life education programs; (ii) content analysis of family life education and sex education programs in terms of rationale, objectives, concepts, themes and contents, teaching strategies and methodologies, etc.; (iii) changing scenes in the 90s; (iv) emerging key issues and concepts; (v) objectives, concepts and contents to be reinforced or revised for training and teaching purposes; (vi) recommendations for a reconceptualization/reorientation; and (vii) lessons learned and future needs and requirements.

Africa↗
PubMed1991

[Sex education, sex behavior, contraception].

Sexual behavior has changed during the last decades. Teenage fertility rate, and the number of gonococcal infections are both extremely high; the incidence of HIV-infections is increasing. Preventive measures include sex education. Sex education may help the adolescents to identify their own goals for sexual behavior, to avoid unintended and unwanted pregnancy, and to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

Adolescent↗
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The association of AIDS education and sex education with sexual behavior and condom use among teenage men.

According to a 1988 nationally representative survey, most 15-19--year-old men in the United States have received formal instruction about AIDS (73%), birth control (79%) and resisting sexual activity (58%). Results of multivariate analyses show the receipt of AIDS education and sex education to be associated with modest but significant decreases in the number of partners and the frequency of intercourse in the year prior to the survey. Having received instruction in these topics was also associated with more consistent condom use. Instruction in some topics was associated with increases in knowledge and attitudes about AIDS, but these increases were not always correlated with safer behavior.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1991

Sources of sex education as a function of sex, coital activity, and type of information.

Previous studies of the sources of sex education are reviewed and critically analyzed. Most previous studies have examined the limited issue of which source of sex education is most important, examined the sources of only a few sexual topics, or used inadequate methodology. In the present study, more adequate data regarding the relative contributions of parents, schools, reading, and peers to information about each of 35 different sexual topics were obtained from a sample of 232 male and female, coitally experienced or inexperienced, midwestern college students. Individual reading and peers were the highest rated sources overall and on most of the subcategories of items. Schools were highly rated sources for topics related to the anatomy and physiology of sex and venereal disease. Coitally experienced (CE) individuals reported receiving more information overall than coitally inexperienced (CIE) individuals. However, contrary to previous speculations, CE and CIE individuals did not differ in the amount of information received from parents. Instead, CE individuals received more information through reading and from peers than did CIE individuals. Consistent with previous findings, amount of information received from parents correlated negatively with performance on a sexual knowledge test. Comparison of the present results with previous research suggested a developmental hypothesis, namely, that as individuals develop from early adolescence to young adulthood and become more sexually active, individual reading becomes a more important source of sexual information.

Adolescent↗