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Sex Ed by Brown Med: Evaluating the Impact of Medical Student-Led Sexual Health Curriculum on Middle Schoolers’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Knowledge
Sex Ed by Brown Med: Evaluating the Impact of Medical Student-Led Sexual Health Curriculum on Middle Schoolers’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Knowledge
- Source :
- Council on School Health.
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Academy of Pediatrics, 2021.
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Abstract
- Background: School-based HIV/STI prevention initiatives can reduce sexual risk behaviors and prevent teen pregnancy among school-age youth. However, only 27 states and D.C. mandate both sex education and HIV education, and access to formal sexual health education continues to decline. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) emphasizes the importance of age-appropriate sexual health education, and the 2016 Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents clinical report recommends dissemination through three learning domains: “cognitive (information), affective (feelings, values, and attitudes), and behaviors (communication, decision-making, and other skills)”. Sex Ed by Brown Med was …
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Council on School Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a2d5f56cd1948a493219fce40c318d99
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.147.3_meetingabstract.220-a