BMJ 2000;320:1243-1244 ( 6 May )

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Extent of regretted sexual intercourse among young teenagers in Scotland: a cross sectional survey

Daniel Wight, senior researcher ^a,  Marion Henderson, senior researcher ^a,  Gillian Raab, professor ^b,  Charles Abraham, professor ^c,  Katie Buston, researcher ^a,  Sue Scott, professor ^d,  Graham Hart, associate director ^a. 

^a MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ, ^b School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Napier University, Merchiston, Edinburgh EH10 5DT, ^c School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, ^d Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3JT

Correspondence to: D Wight danny@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk

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The proportion of young people who have sexual intercourse before the age of 16 is increasing.¹ Previous studies have found that sexual intercourse before the age of 16 is often regretted. ^{1 2} Reported regret might result, however, from re-evaluation from a more mature perspective as most data have been reported retrospectively by older respondents. We conducted a large scale survey (the first such study in the United Kingdom) of sexual behaviour reported by young people aged under 15. 

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In 1996 and 1997 a questionnaire was administered to all third year pupils in 24 non-denominational state secondary schools in east Scotland as part of a sex education trial.³ The research was approved by Glasgow University's Ethics Committee for Non-Clinical Research Involving Human Subjects and the relevant local authorities' education departments. After a pilot study, questions relating directly to sexual abuse were withdrawn as one education department prohibited them. The questionnaire was administered with both the young people's . . . [Full text of this article]

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