2021
DOI: 10.1590/1984-0462/2021/39/2019372
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Adolescent Students' Attitudes Towards Sexuality: The Construction and Validation of a Scale

Abstract: Objective: To construct a scale of adolescents' attitudes towards sexuality and to determine their psychometric characteristics. Methods: Methodological study conducted with 394 students from the 8th to 12th grades of a school in central Portugal. They answered a questionnaire consisting of the Adolescent Students' Attitude Scale for Sexuality (E3AS) and socio-demographic and academic data. The project received a favorable opinion from the National Data Protection Commission (authorization No. 10421/2017). … Show more

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“…Developing a healthy sexuality depends on beliefs and values on human dignity, freedom and responsibility in the search for sense of coherence, rather than seeking instant Brazilian Journal of Health Review, Curitiba, v. 6, n. 1, p. 813-825, jan./feb., 2023 pleasure or power, integrating the information expressed in attitudes. 7 Kohler et al compared the sexual health risks of adolescents who received abstinence-only and CSE to those who received no formal sexual education. They concluded that abstinence-only programs had no significant effect in delaying the initiation of sexual activity or in reducing the risk for teen pregnancy and STIs.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Developing a healthy sexuality depends on beliefs and values on human dignity, freedom and responsibility in the search for sense of coherence, rather than seeking instant Brazilian Journal of Health Review, Curitiba, v. 6, n. 1, p. 813-825, jan./feb., 2023 pleasure or power, integrating the information expressed in attitudes. 7 Kohler et al compared the sexual health risks of adolescents who received abstinence-only and CSE to those who received no formal sexual education. They concluded that abstinence-only programs had no significant effect in delaying the initiation of sexual activity or in reducing the risk for teen pregnancy and STIs.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…6 In 2020, Barros et al developed the Adolescent Students' Attitude Scale for Sexuality (E3AS), a valid and reliable instrument, with good internal consistency indexes, adapted for the study of Portuguese adolescents' attitudes towards sexuality. 7 The objective of the present study was to evaluate the importance adolescents attributed to sexual education, correlating it with the assessment they make of their knowledge and with their attitudes towards sexuality, in particular risk-taking sexual behaviors. Moreover, we intended to evaluate how the attendance of family planning appointments or adolescent medicine appointments impact their knowledge about sexuality.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The use of these questionnaires, which also served as a basis for the construction and subsequent validation of the Adolescent Students' Attitude Scale for Sexuality (Barros et al, 2021), was the starting point for an innovative and different analysis of what has already been described in the literature on sexual and reproductive health promotion for Portuguese adolescents, including gender identity and sexual orientation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adicionalmente, autores sugerem que o aumento da disponibilidade de serviços de PF conduz a uma diminuição dos comportamentos sexuais de risco entre os adolescentes mais velhos (7) . Deste modo, é importante desenvolver estratégias que aumentem o recurso às consultas de PF pelos adolescentes, quer através da sua maior disponibilidade quer através da quebra de barreiras que possam existir e que impeçam o recurso dos jovens a estas consultas (8,9) . Com este estudo pretendemos conhecer as caraterísticas demográficas e conhecimentos sobre sexualidade dos adolescentes; avaliar o conhecimento dos adolescentes e importância atribuída à existência de serviços de saúde que disponibilizam informação sobre sexualidade bem como caraterizar a frequência de consultas de PF e medicina do adolescente (MA) pelos jovens e avaliar o seu grau de satisfação relativamente às consultas; comparar o conhecimento sobre sexualidade, frequência de consultas de PF/MA, hábitos relativos à sexualidade e comportamentos sexuais de risco consoante a idade e sexo dos adolescentes.…”
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