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| Title |
Short-term effects of a rights-based sexuality education curriculum for high-school students: a cluster-randomized trial
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-015-1625-5 |
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| Authors |
Norman A Constantine, Petra Jerman, Nancy F Berglas, Francisca Angulo-Olaiz, Chih-Ping Chou, Louise A Rohrbach |
| Abstract |
An emerging model for sexuality education is the rights-based approach, which unifies discussions of sexuality, gender norms, and sexual rights to promote the healthy sexual development of adolescents. A rigorous evaluation of a rights-based intervention for a broad population of adolescents in the U.S. has not previously been published. This paper evaluates the immediate effects of the Sexuality Education Initiative (SEI) on hypothesized psychosocial determinants of sexual behavior. A cluster-randomized trial was conducted with ninth-grade students at 10 high schools in Los Angeles. Classrooms at each school were randomized to receive either a rights-based curriculum or basic sex education (control) curriculum. Surveys were completed by 1,750 students (N = 934 intervention, N = 816 control) at pretest and immediate posttest. Multilevel regression models examined the short-term effects of the intervention on nine psychosocial outcomes, which were hypothesized to be mediators of students' sexual behaviors. Compared with students who received the control curriculum, students receiving the rights-based curriculum demonstrated significantly greater knowledge about sexual health and sexual health services, more positive attitudes about sexual relationship rights, greater communication about sex and relationships with parents, and greater self-efficacy to manage risky situations at immediate posttest. There were no significant differences between the two groups for two outcomes, communication with sexual partners and intentions to use condoms. Participation in the rights-based classroom curriculum resulted in positive, statistically significant effects on seven of nine psychosocial outcomes, relative to a basic sex education curriculum. Longer-term effects on students' sexual behaviors will be tested in subsequent analyses. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02009046 . |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 67% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 262 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 50 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 40 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 11% |
| Researcher | 20 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 14 | 5% |
| Other | 42 | 16% |
| Unknown | 68 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 43 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 41 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 37 | 14% |
| Psychology | 30 | 11% |
| Arts and Humanities | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 27 | 10% |
| Unknown | 77 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 December 2015.
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#15,557,505
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#11,317
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#151,374
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#211
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