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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

Authors :
Natasha Furtado Dalomba
Charlotte Lee
Sarah Bourne
Angela Y. Zhang
Susanna R. Magee
Mary F. Roberts
Elizabeth Taliaferro
Constance Panton
Source :
Council on School Health.
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
American Academy of Pediatrics, 2021.

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