Better learning in schools to improve attitudes toward abstinence and intentions for safer sex among adolescents in urban Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

School-based sex education is an effective medium to convey health information and skills about preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancies among adolescents. However, research on school-based sex education is limited in many developing countries, including Nepal. This study thus had two main objectives: (1) to assess students' evaluation of school-based sex education, and (2) to examine the associations between students' evaluations of school-based sex education and their (a) attitudes toward abstinence and (b) intentions for safer sex.

Methods

This cross-sectional study was conducted among 634 students from six schools in the Kathmandu Valley during May-June 2010. We used a self-administered questionnaire to assess students' evalua

SUBMITTER: Shrestha RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3608152 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature