Health literacy improvement of eight grade students on reproductive health – presentation of workshops „Communication, emotions, sexuality“

Medicina Fluminensis

Lazarević Rukavina, Ines¹  Pugel, Sanjin²  Sorta-Bilajac Turina, Iva³ 

[1] GinekoloÅ¡ka ordinacija Fistonić, Zagreb, Hrvatska;Katedra za medicinsku informatiku, Medicinski fakultet SveučiliÅ¡ta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska;Odjel socijalne medicine, Nastavni zavod za javno zdravstvo PGŽ, Rijeka, Hrvatska

关键词: communication;    emotions;    education;    health literacy;    reproductive health;    sexuality;   

DOI  :  10.21860/medflum2019_216425

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Medicina Fluminensis

【 摘 要 】

Aim: To examine the knowledge about communication, emotions, and sexual health of 8th-grade students. To state the most common issues. Make a comparison by gender. Participants and methods: The sample of participants included 174 students (F=97 (56 %)), representing 81 % of the total population of 8th-grade students in one elementary school in the Primorje-Gorski kotar County (N=214) through three generations. An anonymous survey was conducted before the beginning and at the end of the workshops. The first survey evaluated the students’ initial knowledge of the topics to be covered by the workshops. The second survey evaluated the usefulness of the workshops and served as process analysis. Results: The average age was 14 (13-15) years. Students talk about their problems very often with their mother (45 %), their friends (41 %), their father (19 %), and their siblings (16.9 %). Most of the students do not talk to the school physician (85.8 %), family physician (79.2 %), specialist school services (69.1 %) and their classmasters/professors (50 %). They very often talk about school (45.8%), friends (31.7 %), and health (25.8 %). They talk the least about the boys/girls they are in love with (36.5 %), sexuality (29.1 %), and emotions (17.8 %). Students believe they possess very good (24.7 %) and excellent (35.3 %) knowledge about sex, and that they are very good (42.2 %) and excellent (25.8%) in communicating. They evaluate their knowledge about health (37 %) and STDs (32.2 %) as good. Boys think they know more about sex than girls (20.6 % vs 14.7 %, P=0.004). Girls think they know more about emotions (15.3 % vs 3.7 %, P=0.003). The workshops were rated as useful (92.5 %). Conclusions: Based on the insights from the workshops, their content should be addressed through a separate activity, beyond the existing subjects, continuously throughout the year, using an evocation/understanding/reflection-framework, and short-term goals should be defined according to the characteristics of each group and survey results. The reproductive health of children and the youth is a complex area requiring an interdisciplinary approach.

【 授权许可】

CC BY