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Bridging the Gap: Malaysian youths and the pedagogy of school-based sexual health education
Mazlin Mohamad Mokhtar, Doreen A Rosenthal, Jane S Hocking, Nuraliza Abdul Satar, MY Abbas (ed.)
ACE-BS 2013 HANOI (ASEAN CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT-BEHAVIOUR STUDIES) | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Published : 2013
Abstract
ObjectivesTo determine what students had received in the teaching of key areas in school-based sexual health education.Methods1706 university students completed a self-administered questionnaire exploring their previous exposure towards 16 sexual health topics.ResultsMost recalled ever having attended classes on sexual health topics but reported remarkably low coverage for lessons relating to ‘Sexual relationship and emotion’. Students expressed most need for information on ‘STIs’, and while ‘sexual desire and pleasure’ was the least.ConclusionThe students’ low recall for taught sexual health education requires further investigation in order to establish methods on improving information rete..
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Awarded by Ministry of Higher Education for granting this FRGS research fund
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Research Management Institute (RMI) of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and The Ministry of Higher Education for granting this FRGS research fund (600-IRDC/SSP/FRGS 5/3/2102). In addition, we also thank the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), The University of Melbourne Australia human research ethics committee and Ministry of Higher Education, as well as the participating universities for giving us permission to conduct the study.