Healthy and Respectful Relationship Education: Differences by Disability Status and Associations With Sexual Abuse.

Autor: Newby-Kew A; Oregon Health Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health, Portland, OR., Horner-Johnson W; Oregon Health Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health; Institute on Development and Disability, School of Medicine, OHSU, Portland, OR.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of school health [J Sch Health] 2023 Jul; Vol. 93 (7), pp. 565-572. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 23.
DOI: 10.1111/josh.13317
Abstrakt: Background: Education about healthy and respectful relationships (HRR) is a key component of comprehensive sexual health curricula and is supposed to be universally provided in Oregon. This study: (1) assesses the extent to which high school students with disabilities received HRR education, and (2) examines associations between HRR education and experiences of sexual abuse.
Methods: Using data from the 2019 Oregon Healthy Teens survey, we conducted multivariable Poisson regression to compare 11th grade students with and without disabilities on self-reported receipt of school based HRR instruction (N = 10,992), and to measure associations between HRR education and sexual abuse experiences among teens with (N = 3736) and without (N = 7256) disabilities.
Results: Students with disabilities were 41% more likely than students without disabilities to say they had never been taught in school about HRR (adjusted prevalence ratio 1.41, 95% confidence interval: 1.25-156). Experiences of sexual abuse victimization were more common for all students who did not receive HRR education (34.1% vs 21.6% among students with disabilities; 16.2% vs 7.5% among students without disabilities).
Conclusions: Students with disabilities are less likely to have received school-based HRR education than their peers without disabilities. Providing inclusive HRR education may help reduce risk of sexual abuse and is essential for addressing health disparities affecting youth with disabilities.
(© 2023 American School Health Association.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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