Condoms and adolescents. A prospective study of a new method of teaching

A prospective investigation was carried out with the object of assessing the effect of supplementary sex education for 1.3 hours in addition to the compulsory sex education in Danish elementary schools. One doctor did the teaching and practice with a condom was introduced as a new method of teaching. On an average, seven weeks before and seven weeks after this teaching session, these pupils completed a questionnaire. Altogether 451 pupils from the eighth and ninth classes participated. Great changes had occurred in the methods of contraception employed by the adolescents and in their attitudes to these from 1982 to date. Many more of the adolescents consider today that condoms provide the best form of contraception as compared with oral contraception. Nevertheless, only 9% of the adolescents were able to use a condom correctly. After the teaching session, knowledge about the correct use of a condom was significantly better and more had a positive attitude to condoms. A balance in information about methods of contraception is recommended and the young people should be sent to their own general practitioners for individual advice. On the basis of the results of this investigation, this teaching should be given already to pupils in the eighth classes.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1990

Erschienen:

1990

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:152

Enthalten in:

Ugeskrift for laeger - 152(1990), 35 vom: 27. Aug., Seite 2478-80

Sprache:

Dänisch

Weiterer Titel:

Kondomer og unge. Prospektiv undersøgelse af en ny undervisnigsmetode

Beteiligte Personen:

Hansen, M L [VerfasserIn]
Bülow, H H [VerfasserIn]
Naess, B [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Adolescents
Adolescents, Male
Age Factors
Attitude
Barrier Methods
Behavior
Condom
Contraception
Contraceptive Methods
Contraceptive Usage
Demographic Factors
Denmark
Developed Countries
Education
English Abstract
Europe
Family Planning
Journal Article
Northern Europe
Organization And Administration
Population
Population Characteristics
Program Evaluation
Programs
Prospective Studies
Psychological Factors
Research Methodology
Scandinavia
Sex Education
Studies
Youth

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 26.10.1990

Date Revised 15.11.2006

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM023841486