Chapter 19

Question 1

Providing access to comprehensive sexual health information and other recourses necessary to promote healthy sexuality and avoid negative outcomes.

Answer 1

Sexual Health Education (SHE)

Question 2

True or false: sexual education was first introduced in 2019

Answer 2

false: 1994

Question 3

What are the two main goals of SHE?

Answer 3

promoting positive seuxal health outcomes and preventing negative sexual health outcomes

Question 4

What is the criticism of the current SHE program?

Answer 4

focuses too much on the negative side of sexual health

Question 5

True or false: the canadian SHE program uses the IBM skills model

Answer 5

true

Question 6

What are the 3 steps for effective program integration using IBM

Answer 6

1. determine sexual health needs
2. design a program that meets those needs
3. evaluate program

Question 7

What are the 3 parts of the IMB model

Answer 7

information, motivation and behaviour

Question 8

What is the flow of the iMB model?

Answer 8

with the information to do a skill and the motivation to do that skill, a behaviour skill is produced which results in a behavour

Question 9

A SHE program that informs of how to have safe sex

Answer 9

comprehensive programs

Question 10

A SHE program that dismisses any form of sex

Answer 10

abstinence-only program

Question 11

True or false: abstinence-only programs are effective at promoting abstinence

Answer 11

false: many youths still engage in sex and actually have the same outcomes as no SHE

Question 12

What are the two main issues of abstinence-only programs?

Answer 12

1. withhold information
2. don’t acknowledge gender diverse and sexually diverse experiences

Question 13

What is recommended for the content of SHE in Canada?

Answer 13

1. theoretical foundation
2. clear message
3. appropriate content and teaching method
4. activities related to social envrionment
5. activites related to sexual communication
6. active application of knowledge

Question 14

A questionnaire for female grade 7 students who attended a SHE program and a booster SHE program in grade 8.

Answer 14

Girt Time Program

Question 15

What was the main findings from Girl Time?

Answer 15

More years of SHE = more knowledge, the program did not have much effect on attitudes (probably because of the type of girls who participated) and had a higher self-efficacy.

Question 16

True or False: STI knowledge is increasing for grade 7, 9 and 11 students

Answer 16

false, when compaired to 1989, students in 2002 had less knowledge

Question 17

True or false: attitudes about masturbation and causal sex very by gender

Answer 17

true: girls appear to believe that causal sex and masturbation is wrong, while boys believe it’s okay

Question 18

True or false: sexual activity of teens have increased since 1989

Answer 18

false: sexual activity of teens remained at the same levels as 1989 dispite having less knowledge about sexual activites

Question 19

True or false: the reason some do not use condoms is because of a lack of SHE in school.

Answer 19

true: barriers to education has been linked to lack of contraception use in general

Question 20

True or false: STI rates have been decreasing since 1989

Answer 20

False: STI rates have been increasing, specifically in northern canada

Question 21

True or false: teen pregnancy rates have been decreasing.

Answer 21

True: in general it has been decreasing, but when examining certain provinces, it has been increasing like in Manitoba

Question 22

Where do teens learn about sex outside the classroom?

Answer 22

personal experience, internet and friends

Question 23

Why do teens perfer to not ask parents about sex?

Answer 23

discomfort from teen, parent discomfort, lack of knowledge (parent)

Question 24

Why is it important to have parents talk to their children about sex?

Answer 24

parents talking about sex is related to safer-sex behaviours,

Question 25

Why are peer-to-peer SHE interventions positive and negative?

Answer 25

youth feel more comfortable talking to peers then adults, more likely to follow what peers say then adults, and when peers talk about risky sex, they are likely to also do it.

Question 26

What are some issues with sex in the media?

Answer 26

1. don’t show safe sex behaviours
2. don’t talk about safe sex
3. don’t depict sex openly (taboo)
4. portraying masturbation as negative

Question 27

Why is internet pornography mistleading?

Answer 27

1. shows unrealistic bodies and genitals
2. displays unrealistic expectations of sex
3. sometimes is a person’s first exposure to sex
4. Lack of sexual and gender diversity

Question 28

What are some examples of the consequences of institutional barriers to SHE?

Answer 28

1. Ignoring SGD youth creates stigmatization
2. not including lessons one technological advancements
3. teachers and parents seeing the class as low priority

Question 29

Why is SHE important for SGD youth?

Answer 29

reduces expected negative outcomes including bullying, homophobia, and transphobia from parents, teachers and students.

Question 30

True or false: older adults do not engage in sexual activity

Answer 30

false: many older adults are sexually active, but long-term care facilities, lack of SHE, and physician discrimination can create barriers to information and ability to have sex

Question 31

True or False: STIs are increasing in older adults

Answer 31

true

Question 32

True or false: people with physical and intellectual disabilities do not receive SHE

Answer 32

true, dispite sitting in the same class room, the SHE taught does not apply to them and will not help them

Question 33

What are the barriers to SHE for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities?

Answer 33

1. lower access to SHE
2. lack of privarcy
3. fewer opportunities for social interactions and initiate relationships