OBJECTIVES To examine travel related sexual risk behaviour among migrants living in Amsterdam. METHODS People originating from Surinam (n = 798) and the Netherlands Antilles (n = 227) were recruited in order to study the heterosexual spread of HIV within ethnic groups. Log binomial regression was used to study determinants for homeland travel over the past 5 years; logistic regression was use...

While school-based sex education is one of the key program and policy solutions to improve adolescent sexual health outcomes, new efforts are needed to strengthen its overall impact. The cognitive, hormonal, emotional, and physical changes that accompany the onset of puberty and occur throughout the teenage years play a significant role in aspects of adolescent sexual risk taking. Thus, one app...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for adolescent pregnancy among female students in Bogotá, Colombia. METHODS This was a retrospective study of cases and controls matched by age, identified by means of a survey on the sexual behavior of adolescent students in Bogotá (Encuesta sobre el Comportamiento Sexual de los Adolescentes Escolarizados en Bogotá) conducted in the first semester of 2010. ...

poning sexual activity, and reproductive health educators who traditionally provide information about contraception and disease prevention (information that is not part of the curriculum) eventually came to support ENABL’s approach for middle school youths.5 Three and one-half years after its launch, ENABL had evolved from a groundbreaking health education campaign into a way of life for the ag...

OBJECTIVES The study updates Schloman's 1997 study, "Mapping the Literature of Health Education." The authors identify an updated list of core health education journals and determine the coverage of these journals by electronic indexes. METHODS Citations from four source journals for the years 2006 to 2008 were analyzed using the established methodology of the "Mapping the Literature of Allie...

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...

Background and Objectives This study addresses a gap in the knowledge base regarding whether there are differences in mental, cognitive, and functional health between sexual minority women aged 65 and older and their heterosexual counterparts, as well as whether disparities are moderated by age, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity. Research Design and Methods This study analyzes 2015 Beh...

BACKGROUND There is substantial evidence that low consumption of fruit and vegetables (FV) is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to assess FV consumption and the variables that influence it among elderly individuals in Iran aged 60 and over. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study to investigate FV intake by a randomly-selected sample of members of elder...