Trial reportThe Journal of school health2015
Effectiveness of health education teachers and school nurses teaching sexually transmitted infections/human immunodeficiency virus prevention knowledge and skills in high school.
Trial report in The Journal of school health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- School-based interventions for improving contraceptive use in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Effect of a school-linked life skills intervention on adolescents' sexual and reproductive health skills in Guji zone, Ethiopia (CRT)-A generalized linear model.Frontiers in public health · 2023Trial
- A Media Literacy Education Approach to High School Sexual Health Education: Immediate Effects of Media Aware on Adolescents' Media, Sexual Health, and Communication Outcomes.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Trial
- Promoting Sexual Health in High School: A Feasibility Study of A Web-based Media Literacy Education Program.Journal of health communication · 2021Trial
- Portrait and factors associated with non-teaching school staff intention to deliver a comprehensive sexuality education program: an exploratory study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Sexual Health Education Program for Muslim Countries: An Intervention Study.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
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- Women's Perceived HIV Stigma and Testing in Stann Creek District, Belize: A Population-Representing, Mixed-Methods Study.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Evaluation of a school-based health education program on hepatitis B virus infection prevention practice in rural South-Western, Nigeria.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Effect of School-Linked Module-Based Friendly-Health Education on Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge, Guji Zone, Ethiopia - Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2024Article
- Prevalence ofEpidemiology and infection · 2023Article
- Type of Sex Education in Childhood and Adolescence: Influence on Young People's Sexual Experimentation, Risk and Satisfaction: The Necessity of Establishing School Nursing as a Pillar.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Trends in the teaching of sexual and reproductive health topics and skills in required courses in secondary schools, in 38 US states between 2008 and 2018.Health education research · 2023Article
- Teaching About Contraception: Adolescent Attitudes Surrounding Sexual Education.Open access journal of contraception · 2023Review
- Developing Sexual Self-Efficacy Beliefs During Adolescence: Do Health Teachers Really Matter?Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Characterization of adolescent sexual practices.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2022Observational
- Determinants of public health and interventions to address HIV infection among men who have sex with men in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA.Le infezioni in medicina · 2022Review
- Knowledge, Information Needs and Risk Perception about HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases after an Education Intervention on Italian High School and University Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundWe examined the differential impact of a well-established human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted infections (STIs) curriculum, Be Proud! Be Responsible!, when taught by school nurses and health education classroom teachers within a high school curricula.
methodsGroup-randomized intervention study of 1357 ninth and tenth grade students in 10 schools. Twenty-seven facilitators (6 nurses, 21 teachers) provided programming; nurse-led classrooms were randomly assigned.
resultsStudents taught by teachers were more likely to report their instructor to be prepared, comfortable with the material, and challenged them to think about their health than students taught by a school nurse. Both groups reported significant improvements in HIV/STI/condom knowledge immediately following the intervention, compared to controls. Yet, those taught by school nurses reported significant and sustained changes (up to 12 months after intervention) in attitudes, beliefs, and efficacy, whereas those taught by health education teachers reported far fewer changes, with sustained improvement in condom knowledge only.
conclusionsBoth classroom teachers and school nurses are effective in conveying reproductive health information to high school students; however, teaching the technical (eg, condom use) and interpersonal (eg, negotiation) skills needed to reduce high-risk sexual behavior may require a unique set of skills and experiences that health education teachers may not typically have.
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