BACKGROUND The British medical student population has undergone rapid diversification over the last decades. This study focuses on medical students' views about their experiences in relation to ethnicity and gender during their undergraduate training within the context of the hidden curriculum in one British medical school as part of a wider qualitative research project into undergraduate medic...

CONTEXT Family planning clinic in urban India. OBJECTIVE To assess the usefulness of a pelvic simulator for intimate examination and intrauterine device insertion training, and for enhancing reproductive education for women. DESIGN Observational study using evaluation forms completed by staff, and focus group interviews with women and girls participating in sexual health education. Content ...

OBJECTIVE Sexual health education is important in addressing the health and social inequalities faced by people with intellectual disabilities. However, provision of health-related advice and education to people with various types and degrees of linguistic and learning difficulties involves addressing complex issues of language and comprehension. This article reports an exploratory study using ...

This article chronicles the impact on sexuality policy in the United States of the rise of the Religious Right as a significant force in American politics. Using a case study analysis of abortionreproductive rights and sexuality education, it narrates the story of how U.S. policy debates and practices have changed since the 1970s as sexual conservatism rose in prominence and sexual progressives...

CONTEXT We know little about young people's views of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the frequency of teenage pregnancy. OBJECTIVE To compare the views of young people and professionals about ways to reduce the frequency of teenage pregnancy. DESIGN Comparison of consensus emerging from adult and teenagers' workshop discussions and subsequent modified two-round Delphi questionn...

Background: Sexual relationship plays a decisive role in human’s health and it seems that sexual education can enhance the quality of sexual relationship. Aim: Investigating the effectiveness of sexual education focused on cognitive schemas, on the improvement of sexual functioning of female married students. Methods: This research was carried out semi-experimentally and a pretest-posttest desi...

Background: Sexual function and relationship is the factors that interfere with marital satisfaction. This study is about the effect of sex education on marital satisfaction in women with sexual dysfunction who were referred to health centers in Qazvin city. Materials and Methods: This is a randomized control trial study with an intervention group and a control group with 90 participant. The de...

Comprehensive sexuality education and sexuality education that is inclusive to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth is thought to educate and support youth in their social relations. Despite the obligation for Dutch schools to cover sexuality education in their curricula, including the topic of sexual diversity, the content that is covered varies widely acro...