Relationships and Sex Education Outcomes for Students With Intellectual Disability: Protocol for the Development of a Core Outcome Set.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with intellectual disability are twice as likely to experience sexual abuse, unintended pregnancies, and sexually transmitted diseases as people in the general population. Despite this, very little is known about how to deliver relationships and sex education effectively to this vulnerable population, how to measure the impact of its delivery in schools, and what stakeholders perceive as important outcomes of this education.

Objective

To address these urgent issues, this study aims to develop a stakeholder consensus-based core outcome set of relationships and sex education for use in research and educational settings with students with intellectual disability.

Methods

The study will use a 2-stage mixed methods design. The first stage will involve a s

SUBMITTER: Paulauskaite L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9679930 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature