Sexual and reproductive health literacy of the youth in Bandar Abbas

Dabiri, Fatemeh; Hajian, Sepideh; Ebadi, Abbas; Zayeri, Farid; Abedini, Sedigheh

doi:10.3934/medsci.2019.4.318

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“…The studies of sexual health and productivity literacy were inadequate, which contradicted the results of the present study. [ 22 23 ] Possible reasons for these discrepancies included the difference between the two studies and the present study in terms of items such as measuring tools, age, gender, and the level of education of the participants.…”

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The association between sexual health literacy and sexual function of women in Iran

Dehghankar

Panahi

Khatooni

et al. 2022

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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BACKGROUND: Considering the importance of sexual health literacy in promoting individual sexual health and ultimately improving family and social health as well as the effect of health literacy on sexual function, this study was designed and conducted to determine the association between sexual health literacy and sexual function among women. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study. A total of 420 women referring to health centers were entered into the study using one-stage cluster sampling method. Data collection tools included a demographic questionnaire, Iranian Adult Sexual Health Literacy Assessment Questionnaire, and the Persian version of the Female Sexual Function Assessment Questionnaire (FSFI). Data were collected and entered into SPSS 22 and logistic regression. RESULTS: The results of the logistic regression test showed that the variable of sexual health literacy was effective on women's sexual function (P = 0.021) so that the chances of having a desirable sexual function in women with excellent were 4.222 times more than women with inadequate health literacy; the variables of employment status, level of education, duration of marital life, and the number of sexual intercourses per recent week were the factors affecting women's sexual function (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The results of this study pointed out the existence of an undesirable level of sexual function and a desirable level of sexual health literacy among participating women. Hence, designing and implementing the training plans to promote sexual function among these women is necessary.

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The association between sexual health literacy and sexual function of women in Iran

Dehghankar

Panahi

Khatooni

et al. 2022

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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“…In the studies of Dabiri et al . [ 34 ] and Vongxay et al .,[ 35 ] sexual health and productivity literacy were inadequate, which contradicted the results of the present study. Possible reasons for these discrepancies included the difference between the two studies and the present study in terms of items such as measuring tools, age, gender, and the level of education of the participants.…”

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The effect of sexual health literacy on the sexual life quality of women referring to healthcare centers in Qazvin, Iran

Panahi

Kheiri

Daronkolaei

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BACKGROUND: Considering the role of sexual quality of life in public satisfaction, improving interpersonal relationships, promoting the general quality of life, especially in women, and ultimately maintaining, consolidating, and promoting family and community health, the need to explain the factors affecting it, such as sexual health literacy, is felt from the perspective of women. This study aimed to determine the relationship of sexual health literacy on the sexual life quality of women referring to health-care centers in Qazvin. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This research was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The population of this study was 420 women of Qazvin in 2020 who were selected by multistage sampling. The data collection tool was a demographic questionnaire and the standard questionnaire sexual health literacy for adults and Sexual Quality of Life-Female questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22 and descriptive statistics and logistic regression. RESULTS: The mean (standard deviation) of the sexual health literacy score was 78.47 (17.85) and sexual quality of life was 59.71 (19.21). The results of logistic regression test showed that the variables of sexual health literacy, education level, age of marriage, and number of sexual intercourses per week were effective factors on the sexual quality of life (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Women with lower sexual health literacy, lower education level, higher marriage age, and women who had sex less per week had a lower sexual quality of life. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to these women in designing educational programs to improve the quality of sexual life.

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“…Health literacy is one way to respond to such requirement established in CEDAW and, more broadly, to address the public health problem of violence against women. Health literacy has been widely studied in medicine and public health, and promoted to achieve positive changes on the population's health [21] , [22] . It is defined as the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic information on health and necessary health services to make the most appropriate decisions [23] .…”

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Gender violence among youth: an effective program of preventive socialization to address a public health problem

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Gender violence among youth is a worldwide public health problem. Youth is increasingly exposed to violence in sexual-affective relationships, both stable and sporadic, and the age of victimization decreases. This adverse life experience affects many areas of youth's life, such as education, social relationships and, especially, their physical and mental health, with consequences that can be very harmful in the short and long-term. This situation has given rise to many anti-violence programs for adolescents and youth, yet as some worldwide prestigious organizations, like the American Psychological Association, have pointed out, many of those programs do not work. In this article, we present a program of preventive socialization of gender violence addressed to adolescents that has proven effectiveness. The program was composed of seven interventions based on the social impact of the evidence on preventive socialization of gender violence. It was applied at a group level in groups of 15–16 years old teenagers in three high schools in Barcelona. The interventions were conducted over a period of one school year and shared the trait of discussing research evidence on preventive socialization of gender violence with the youth through egalitarian dialogue. These interventions have proved to have a preventive effect of gender violence victimization on the participating teenagers by raising their critical consciousness regarding a coercive dominant discourse in society that associates attractiveness and violence, supporting the transformation of their memories of violent sexual-affective relationships, and providing them tools to better analyze their and their friends' sexual-affective relationships along the lines of identifying gender violence and being more prepared to help others in this regard. The manuscript describes every intervention applied.

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Sexual and reproductive health literacy of the youth in Bandar Abbas

Cited by 24 publications

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The association between sexual health literacy and sexual function of women in Iran

The association between sexual health literacy and sexual function of women in Iran

The effect of sexual health literacy on the sexual life quality of women referring to healthcare centers in Qazvin, Iran

Gender violence among youth: an effective program of preventive socialization to address a public health problem

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