Two steps forward and one step back? Australian secondary students’ sexual health knowledge and behaviors 1992–2002

• Published in: Journal of adolescent health Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 247 - 252
• Main Authors: Agius, Paul A., Dyson, Sue, Pitts, Marian K., Mitchell, Anne, Smith, Anthony M.A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.03.2006; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; AIDS; Australia; Biological and medical sciences; Condom; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Health Behavior; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Surveys; Hepatitis; HIV Infections - prevention & control; HIV Infections - transmission; HIV/AIDS; Human viral diseases; Humans; Infectious diseases; Knowledge; Male; Medical sciences; Mental health; Personality. Affectivity; Prevention. Health policy. Planification; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Sex Education; Sexual Behavior; Sexual behaviour; Sexuality. Sexual behavior; Sexually transmitted diseases; Sexually Transmitted Diseases - prevention & control; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; STI; Student; Students; Viral diseases; Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids; Australia; Oceania; HIV/AIDS; Hepatitis; Condom; Sexual behavior; STI; Student; Knowledge; Social environment; Secondary education; Mental health; Sex; Hepatic disease; Evolution; Public health; Human; Immunopathology; Retroviridae; AIDS; Health education; Immune deficiency; Lentivirus; Infection; Virus; Sexually transmitted disease; Sociodemographic factor; Viral disease; Adolescent; Risk factor; Digestive diseases; Human immunodeficiency virus

To report on changes in the sexual health knowledge and sexual and risk behaviors of year 10 and 12 Australian school students between 1992 and 2002. Surveys were administered at five yearly intervals to a total of 6781 students in 263 government secondary schools in all Australian states and territ...