Student support for reproductive health education in middle schools: findings from Lebanon

Autor: Jocelyn DeJong, Bassel Nazha, Huda Zurayk, Farah Mouhanna, Rima Afifi, Khalil El Asmar
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Sex Education. 17:195-208
ISSN: 1472-0825
1468-1811
Popis: Reproductive health education (RHE) programmes in schools are a well-recognised means of helping young people make informed decisions relating to their sexual health and well-being. Very little research however has investigated attitudes towards such programmes among students in the Arab world. A national HIV education curriculum was developed in Lebanon in 2005. However, in the context of competing priorities and mixed levels of social resistance, curriculum implementation to date is far from universal. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of support for school-based RHE and the main factors associated with such support among young people aged 11–16 years in Lebanon. A secondary analysis of data from the 2011 Global school-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) was conducted. Students who supported RHE (58.1%) were more likely to be of higher grade level (adjusted OR [Odds Ratio] = 1.78, p-value = 0.005), to have ever drunk alcohol (adjusted OR = 1.52, p-value = 0.012), to prefer mixed classe...
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