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Teen Perceptions of Sexual Activity: Influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices
Teens’ engagement in sexual activity and safe sexual practices is an important public health issue in the US today. This descriptive survey study explored teens’ thoughts about the influences, consequences, and realities associated with teen sexual activity and pregnancy and their perceptions of acc...
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Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8352461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34466900 http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2017.03.010 |
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description | Teens’ engagement in sexual activity and safe sexual practices is an important public health issue in the US today. This descriptive survey study explored teens’ thoughts about the influences, consequences, and realities associated with teen sexual activity and pregnancy and their perceptions of access to sexual health education and contraception. Surveys were administered to 856 Delaware youth in 39 high school health classes from 16 schools. Of the 31 survey items, 25 offered significantly different responses; participants agreed with 16 and disagreed with 9 items (p < .005), revealing important findings concerning teen perceptions as the basis for meaningful interventions. |
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spelling | pubmed-83524612021-08-30 Teen Perceptions of Sexual Activity: Influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices Herrman, Judith W. Dela J Public Health Article Teens’ engagement in sexual activity and safe sexual practices is an important public health issue in the US today. This descriptive survey study explored teens’ thoughts about the influences, consequences, and realities associated with teen sexual activity and pregnancy and their perceptions of access to sexual health education and contraception. Surveys were administered to 856 Delaware youth in 39 high school health classes from 16 schools. Of the 31 survey items, 25 offered significantly different responses; participants agreed with 16 and disagreed with 9 items (p < .005), revealing important findings concerning teen perceptions as the basis for meaningful interventions. Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association 2017-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8352461/ /pubmed/34466900 http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2017.03.010 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/The journal and its content is copyrighted by the Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association (Academy/DPHA). This DJPH site, its contents, and its metadata are licensed under Creative Commons License - CC BY-NC-ND. (Please click to read (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) common-language details on this license type, or copy and paste the following into your web browser: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Images are NOT covered under the Creative Commons license and are the property of the original photographer or company who supplied the image. Opinions expressed by authors of articles summarized, quoted, or published in full within the DJPH represent only the opinions of those authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Academy/DPHA or the institution with which the authors are affiliated. |
spellingShingle | Article Herrman, Judith W. Teen Perceptions of Sexual Activity: Influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices |
title | Teen Perceptions of Sexual Activity: Influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices |
title_full | Teen Perceptions of Sexual Activity: Influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices |
title_fullStr | Teen Perceptions of Sexual Activity: Influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices |
title_full_unstemmed | Teen Perceptions of Sexual Activity: Influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices |
title_short | Teen Perceptions of Sexual Activity: Influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices |
title_sort | teen perceptions of sexual activity: influences, consequences, realities, and thoughts on safe sexual health practices |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8352461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34466900 http://dx.doi.org/10.32481/djph.2017.03.010 |
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