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 |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study 030505 public health business.industry education Population Developing country Context (language use) Resistance (psychoanalysis) Human sexuality Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Family medicine medicine Health education 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business Psychology Curriculum Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Reproductive health |
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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