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ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2024

Effectiveness of a Comprehensive School-Based Sex Education Program for Young Adolescents in the Netherlands.

M C Versloot-Swildens, H de Graaf, J W R Twisk, A Popma, L M C Nauta-Jansen

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Article in Journal of youth and adolescence, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The Role of School Nurses in Promoting Positive Sexual Health Education: A Scoping Review.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

M C Versloot-SwildensDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. m.c.versloot@amsterdamumc.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7166-9615
H de GraafRutgers, Dutch Centre of Expertise on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
J W R TwiskDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
A PopmaDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
L M C Nauta-JansenDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Amsterdam University Medical Centers · NLAmsterdam Neuroscience · NLAmsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NLRutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most sexual education programs traditionally focused on providing sexual information regarding the risks of sex. However, current studies on sexual behavior in youth show a need for truly comprehensive sex education approaches with a sex-positive focus on sexuality, that effectively improve sexual competence. Therefore, in the current study the effectiveness of "Love is…", a four lesson school-based program based on the Sexual Interactional Competence model and Attitude-Social-Influence-Self-Efficacy-model was studied. A cluster-randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of "Love is…" was conducted in 2018-2020. The sample consisted of 1160 adolescents in grades 8 and 9 from nine schools in the Netherlands. The sample was 48% female, 34% Dutch/Caucasian, 41% none-religious and 50% higher educated. They were randomized at class level into a program group [n = 32 classes; 567 students (M

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Sex EducationSexual BehaviorAdolescentFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansMaleNetherlandsRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSchoolsAdolescentsComprehensive sex educationEffectivenessSexual interactional competenceSexual knowledge

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PMID38055133
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