The place of sexuality education in preventing child pregnancies in Sri Lanka

Knowledge regarding Human Papilloma Virus, Related Diseases and Preventive Measures Among Female Undergraduates of a Selected University in Sri Lanka

“…In many societies, young women specially the undergraduates depart from the family environment to start their university education. They leave the restricted family environment and expose to wider society to find new experience in sexuality with peers and have easier access to internet and television-based sources to gain information and increasing their health literacy (Hettiarachchi, 2022;Ivanova et al, 2020). Though knowledge seeking in these aspects are poor in the current study, only a few had attempted to get the information through a few sources such as social media and peers.…”

“…It is not surprising to find poor level of knowledge and not having proper understanding regarding HPV and related problems in developing countries including Sri Lanka due to the lack of information delivered to young on HPV and related diseases (Hettiarachchi et al, 2013, Hettiarachchi, 2022. Further, societal discouragement of verbalizing sexual problems freely that undergraduates may impeded in seeking information on the above aspects (Hettiarachchi, 2022). However, it is expected that Medical and Nursing or Allied Health Sciences undergraduates having greater knowledge due to exposure to the clinical setting and medical knowledge within their course of study.…”

Knowledge, and practices on sexual and reproductive health among youth trainees attached to youth training centers in Sri Lanka

“…Similar to the above findings National Youth Health survey 2012/13 has indicated that knowledge about SRH among young persons is not up to the expected level [ 8 ]. It is found that the main reason for poor knowledge of SRH is associated with the societal stigma on providing sexual health information to children [ 20 ]. Literature indicates that even though sexual health education has been a compulsory part of the Sri Lankan school curriculum for the past three or four decades, there are many gaps in providing SRH knowledge to children through a school-based curriculum [ 12 ].…”

Development and implementation of a worksite-based intervention to improve mothers’ knowledge, attitudes, and skills in sharing information with their adolescent daughters on preventing sexual violence: lessons learned in a developing setting, Sri Lanka

“…The literature shows that lack of awareness and poor life skills are the root causes of the higher incidence of sexual abuse among adolescents [ 6 ]. Despite more than three decades of school sexual health education, Sri Lankan adolescents lack adequate sexual health knowledge and receive conflicting messages [ 7 ].…”