Sex education does not change behaviour

Specially designed, teacher delivered sex education improved knowledge about sexual health and reduced regret among teenagers but had no effect on use of condoms or other contraceptives. Wight and colleagues (p 1430) carried out a randomised trial of a 20 session sex education programme in 25 schools across Scotland. They say that the lack of effect on behaviour suggests that the programme was unable to over-ride broader social influences and the effect of conventional sex education.


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Limits of teacher delivered sex education: interim behavioural outcomes from randomised trial
Daniel Wight, Gillian M Raab, Marion Henderson, Charles Abraham, Katie Buston, Graham Hart, and Sue Scott
BMJ 2002 324: 1430. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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