Sexual behaviour and knowledge among adolescents in Ireland

Drennan, Jonathan; Hyde, Abbey; Howlett, Etaoine

doi:10.1071/sh09004

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“…Similar questionnaire-based studies have been performed in other nations to assess general sexual knowledge among youth (26)(27)(28)(29)(30), but the current study was the first to use a questionnaire systematically designed to correspond to our provincially mandated sexual education curriculum.…”

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Sexual knowledge of Canadian adolescents after completion of high school sexual education requirements

Kumar

Lim

Langford

et al. 2013

Paediatrics and Child Health

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bACKgRouNd: Formal sexual education is a mandatory component of the high school curriculum in most Canadian provinces. The present study was a preliminary assessment of sexual knowledge among a sample of Ontario adolescents who had completed their high school sexual education requirements. MeTHodS: A questionnaire, testing understanding of the learning objectives of Ontario's minimally required high school sexual education course, was distributed in a paediatric emergency department to 200 adolescent patients who had completed the course. ReSuLTS: Respondents demonstrated good understanding of pregnancy physiology and sexually transmitted infections, but poor understanding of concepts related to reproductive physiology, contraception, HIV/AIDS and sexual assault. Most respondents could not identify Canada's age of sexual consent. CoNCLuSioNS: Respondents demonstrated concerning gaps in sexual knowledge despite completion of their sexual education requirements. Further studies must determine whether a representative, population-based student sample would exhibit similar findings. Sexual education currently offered in Ontario may require investigation.

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Sexual knowledge of Canadian adolescents after completion of high school sexual education requirements

Kumar

Lim

Langford

et al. 2013

Paediatrics and Child Health

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“…Davis & Lee, 1996;Geiger et al, 2004;Jordan et al, 1998;Mallet & Herbé, 2011;Maxwell et al, 2003;Sherer, 2010;Strouse et al, 1994;Witkowska, 2005). Females are more likely to have experienced (Breiding et al, 2014;Drennan et al, 2009), witnessed (Otwombe et al, 2015) and been raised to be aware of (Lee et al, 2015) sexual violence from males than the other way around. Furthermore, gender role stereotype and socialisation of males might explain the differences as well, since adolescents have to conform to different kinds of factors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In general, those young people of European heritage have a better knowledge than those from other ethnic backgrounds (Jordan et al, 1998) as well as females when compared to males (Jordan et al, 1998;Lee et al, 2015;Ohnishi et al, 2011;Witkowska, 2005). Higher knowledge among females might be explained by a higher probability of having experienced, witnessed, and been raised to be aware of sexual violence (Breiding et al, 2014;Drennan, Hyde, & Howlett, 2009;Lee et al, 2015;Otwombe et al, 2015).…”

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Adolescents’ level of knowledge of and supportive attitudes to sexual crime in the Swedish context

Svensson

Baer

Silva

2018

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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The aim of the present study was twofold. First, we wanted to quantify the level of knowledge of Swedish young people regarding sexual crime and to evaluate their supportive attitudes, while at the same time we aimed at identifying, through self-report, the sources that most contribute to such knowledge and attitudes. A sample of 245 upper secondary school students was selected from five schools in four Swedish counties. The results indicate that adolescents in Sweden have a high level of knowledge of rape, sexual molestation/harassment, and sexual exploitation of a dependent person. Furthermore, they show nonsupportive attitudes to rape, sexual harassment, and sexual crime in general. However, some issues related to these types of crime proved to be confusing to the participants and, therefore, require targeting in education policies, specifically among juvenile males and those born abroad. The results are discussed in the context of the needs for sexual crime prevention. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Although (very) young children can forget dramatic experiences such as sexual abuse because they don't understand the sexual nature of the conduct, this assumption is rather inappropriate with adolescent victims of CSA. Indeed, adolescents present developed knowledge about sex in general (Drennan, Hyde, & Howlett, 2009), and greater knowledge of their genital anatomy than young children, and also have better abilities in describing sexual abuse (Milam & Nugent, 2017). However, they are not immune to memory impairment following a CSA.…”

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When psychological science fails to be heard: the lack of evidence-based arguments in a ministerial report on child sexual abuse

Dodier

Tomas

2018

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

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One of the most debated issues in relation to child sexual abuse (CSA) is whether there should be a limitation period for prosecutions. In 2017 a French ministerial report was released proposing extension of the limitation period in part because of the sometimes long delay between the alleged events and the disclosure of the abuse. For this, the report relied on dissociative amnesia. It also advocated for the development of child victim interview protocols by victim associations. We show that dissociative amnesia is not consensual within the scientific community. Instead, we recommend scientifically reliable cognitive principles to explain the lack of memory. Moreover, interviewing techniques for children have already been designed by memory researchers to enhance recall and report of CSA, from which any uncontrolled deviation might put the child's testimony at risk. We conclude by advocating for the use of evidence-based psychology, and for cooperation between practitioners, judges and researchers.

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Sexual behaviour and knowledge among adolescents in Ireland

Abstract: Publication informationSexual Health, 6 (3): 245-249Publisher CSIRO Item record/more information

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Sexual knowledge of Canadian adolescents after completion of high school sexual education requirements

Sexual knowledge of Canadian adolescents after completion of high school sexual education requirements

Adolescents’ level of knowledge of and supportive attitudes to sexual crime in the Swedish context

When psychological science fails to be heard: the lack of evidence-based arguments in a ministerial report on child sexual abuse

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