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Stakeholders’ perspectives of comprehensive sexuality education in Iranian male adolescences

BACKGROUND: A coherent sexuality education program for adolescents is part of their sexual and reproductive rights and can help them have a healthier future. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the perspectives and intervention preferences of Iranian stakeholders regarding comprehensive...

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Autores principales: Samadaee Gelehkolaee, Keshvar, Maasoumi, Raziyeh, Azin, Seyed Ali, Nedjat, Saharnaz, Parto, Moslem, Zamani Hajiabadi, Ilia
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7901096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33618726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01084-0
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author Samadaee Gelehkolaee, Keshvar
Maasoumi, Raziyeh
Azin, Seyed Ali
Nedjat, Saharnaz
Parto, Moslem
Zamani Hajiabadi, Ilia
author_facet Samadaee Gelehkolaee, Keshvar
Maasoumi, Raziyeh
Azin, Seyed Ali
Nedjat, Saharnaz
Parto, Moslem
Zamani Hajiabadi, Ilia
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description BACKGROUND: A coherent sexuality education program for adolescents is part of their sexual and reproductive rights and can help them have a healthier future. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the perspectives and intervention preferences of Iranian stakeholders regarding comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in male adolescents based on the IMB model (information, motivation, behavioral skills). METHODS: This study was a qualitative study that was analyzed through a directed content analysis approach. Individual interviews and focused group discussions (FGDs) were used for data collection. The data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in two schools and the Education Department in Sari and the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education in Tehran from March 2019 to August 2019. Data saturation was achieved after 28 interviews and 1 FGDs with 9 participants. Finally, two sets of data were coded and analyzed using directed content analysis. RESULTS: In this study, five themes emerged as (1) role of institutions; (2) role of organizations; (3) need for stakeholder’s partnership; (4) need for adolescent sexuality socialization management; and (5) need for enhancing the teachers’ professional competence, which seemed to influence the implementation of CSE in male adolescents. Participants also expressed a number of intervention preferences for CSE. The most important of these was the change in macro policies, helping to create a culture against all forms of violence and breaking the taboo of sexuality education for children and adolescents. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study revealed the need for a CSE program for adolescents' sexuality socialization. The finding showed that teachers required training to enhance their professional competence about sexuality issues. Therefore, it is necessary to design and implement culture-appropriate skill based programs to enhance the teachers’ professional competence regarding the adolescents’ sexual health.
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spelling pubmed-79010962021-02-23 Stakeholders’ perspectives of comprehensive sexuality education in Iranian male adolescences Samadaee Gelehkolaee, Keshvar Maasoumi, Raziyeh Azin, Seyed Ali Nedjat, Saharnaz Parto, Moslem Zamani Hajiabadi, Ilia Reprod Health Research BACKGROUND: A coherent sexuality education program for adolescents is part of their sexual and reproductive rights and can help them have a healthier future. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the perspectives and intervention preferences of Iranian stakeholders regarding comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in male adolescents based on the IMB model (information, motivation, behavioral skills). METHODS: This study was a qualitative study that was analyzed through a directed content analysis approach. Individual interviews and focused group discussions (FGDs) were used for data collection. The data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in two schools and the Education Department in Sari and the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education in Tehran from March 2019 to August 2019. Data saturation was achieved after 28 interviews and 1 FGDs with 9 participants. Finally, two sets of data were coded and analyzed using directed content analysis. RESULTS: In this study, five themes emerged as (1) role of institutions; (2) role of organizations; (3) need for stakeholder’s partnership; (4) need for adolescent sexuality socialization management; and (5) need for enhancing the teachers’ professional competence, which seemed to influence the implementation of CSE in male adolescents. Participants also expressed a number of intervention preferences for CSE. The most important of these was the change in macro policies, helping to create a culture against all forms of violence and breaking the taboo of sexuality education for children and adolescents. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study revealed the need for a CSE program for adolescents' sexuality socialization. The finding showed that teachers required training to enhance their professional competence about sexuality issues. Therefore, it is necessary to design and implement culture-appropriate skill based programs to enhance the teachers’ professional competence regarding the adolescents’ sexual health. BioMed Central 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7901096/ /pubmed/33618726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01084-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Samadaee Gelehkolaee, Keshvar
Maasoumi, Raziyeh
Azin, Seyed Ali
Nedjat, Saharnaz
Parto, Moslem
Zamani Hajiabadi, Ilia
Stakeholders’ perspectives of comprehensive sexuality education in Iranian male adolescences
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title_sort stakeholders’ perspectives of comprehensive sexuality education in iranian male adolescences
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7901096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33618726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01084-0
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