Factors associated with middle school students' perceptions of the quality of school-based sexual health education

Byers, E. Sandra; Sears, Heather A.; Foster, Lyndsay R.

doi:10.1080/14681811.2012.727083

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“…This is important because, such communication appears to have more impact before youths become actively involved in romantic relationships or engage in sexual activity (Dittus et al, 2004; Miller et al, 1998). Although we did not assess sexual involvement directly, in keeping with previous research (Boyce et al, 2008; Byers et al, 2013; Henrich et al, 2006; Saewyc et al, 2008), it is likely that few of the adolescents had engaged in genitally focused sexual activity such as sexual intercourse. Second, we also used longitudinal data to assess the relationships, with the predictors and mothers’ intentions to have more extensive sexual communication assessed at Time 1 and mothers’ sexual communication behavior assessed at Time 2 for the intervening 6 months.…”

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“…It is particularly important to conduct such research with parents of young adolescents. This is because, only a small minority of young adolescents in North America have engaged in genitally focused sexual activity such as sexual intercourse (Boyce, Gallupe, & Fergus, 2008; Byers, Sears, & Foster, 2013; Henrich et al, 2006; Saewyc, Taylor, Homma, & Ogilvie, 2008) and parent–child sexual communication appears to have more impact before youths engage in sexual activity (Dittus, Miller, Kotchick, & Forehand, 2004; Miller, Levin, Whitaker, & Xu, 1998). Yet few parents of middle school children have in-depth discussions with their adolescent on any sexual topic.…”

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Predicting Mother–Adolescent Sexual Communication Using the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction

Byers

Sears

Hughes

2017

Journal of Family Issues

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Guided by the integrative model of behavioral prediction, we examined factors associated with more extensive mother–adolescent sexual communication. Participants were 303 mothers of young adolescents who completed a survey assessing their skills, attitudes about the outcomes of sexual health discussions, perceptions of social norms, self-efficacy, and sexual communication intentions at baseline (Time 1) and the extent of their sexual communication with their adolescent 6 months later (Time 2). A path analysis showed that, after accounting for the correlations among the four predictors and sexual communication at Time 1, intentions mediated the relationships between mothers’ skills, attitudes, and self-efficacy and the extent of their sexual communication with their adolescent. Attitudes also were related directly to mothers’ sexual communication. These results provide support for the utility of the integrative model of behavioral prediction for identifying parent characteristics that are related to more extensive parent–adolescent sexual communication and one mechanism by which these relationships may occur.

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Predicting Mother–Adolescent Sexual Communication Using the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction

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Sears

Hughes

2017

Journal of Family Issues

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“…Yet the majority of adolescents review their SBSE, when available to them, as lacking excellent or very good quality (Byers et al, 2003a(Byers et al, , 2003b. This may be in part because adolescents consider sex education to be of good quality when it also relates to their interests (Byers, Sears, & Foster, 2013). As this review suggests that adolescents want to learn about sexual experiences, not just sexual health, the Internet may cater better to adolescents' sex education interests, thus serving as a replacement for topics lacking in SBSE.…”

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Adolescents’ Use of the Internet for Sex Education: A Thematic and Critical Review of the Literature

Simon

Daneback

2013

International Journal of Sexual Health

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A thematic and critical literature review was conducted to determine what is known about adolescents' experiences with online sex education. Four major themes could be discerned from the literature, revealing that: (a) adolescents report engaging with sex information online; (b) adolescents are interested in a number of topics, including sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy; (c) the quality of adolescent-targeted sex information online can be lacking, but adolescents can evaluate these sources; and (d) Internet-based interventions can increase adolescents' sexual health knowledge. Inconsistencies in the literature are discussed and suggestions are made for future research.

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“…There is a substantial body of research on young people's views about the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE) in schools, including schools in Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. While it appears that young people appreciate some aspects of school based SRE, (Buston and Wight 2006;Byers, Sears and Foster 2013), much of the research in the above countries suggests that young people are dissatisfied with a perceived over-emphasis on biology at the expense of relationship issues (Di Censo et al 2001;Measor 2004). They want teachers to answer their questions (Blake 2008) and they want to know about how to deal with love, intimacy, jealousy and infidelity (Forrest et al 2004).…”

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Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education

Brown

McQueen

2019

Sex Education

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Despite a substantial body of research on young people's wishes about the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE), studies still indicate dissatisfaction with the way lessons are provided. This discussion takes place in a public health context where young people's sexual activity is viewed negatively and as a risk to health, and advice focusses on the need to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. This focus on risk clashes with cultural representations of sexuality, and particularly male sexuality, which focus on pleasure and risk taking. In this paper, we present insights from workshops provided by a local charity to boys aged 14-15 in a school in one of the most deprived areas in Edinburgh, Scotland. We held four focus groups with a total of 20 boys and interviewed the workshop providers and the school guidance teacher. The boys valued having men from outside school talking to them about sex and relationships in ways that made them feel respected. They were keen to learn more about relationships, highlighting the need to focus on how SRE is delivered to young working class men.

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Factors associated with middle school students' perceptions of the quality of school-based sexual health education

Cited by 34 publications

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Predicting Mother–Adolescent Sexual Communication Using the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction

Predicting Mother–Adolescent Sexual Communication Using the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction

Adolescents’ Use of the Internet for Sex Education: A Thematic and Critical Review of the Literature

Engaging young working class men in the delivery of sex and relationships education

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