| Abstract [eng] |
Key words: student‘s opinion, sexual education Objective. To evaluate opinion on sexual education of the students of the 9th-12th grades in the schools of Vilnius City. Methods. By the means of systemic sampling 10 schools were selected in Vilnius city in 2010-2011 year of the study. One of the 9th, the 10th, the 11th and the 12th grades were selected in every school. The EpiInfo program was used for the calculation of the set. 983 students were interviewed under the questionnaire formed especially for this study. Data analysis was processed by SPSS version 17.0 and WinPepi software. Sperman’s correlations were to evaluate links of range variables and Pearson’s correlations were used to evaluate connection of two quality variables. A method of Mann-Whitney was applied for analysis of range variables. To evaluate the probability of influence of factors conditioning early sexual intercourses the binary logistic regression was used. The prevalence of sexual intercourse was estimated by percent. Results. The results of the study show that one third (30.1 per cent) of teenagers had experience of sexual life. The median of first sexual intercourses is 15 years. The girls had less sexual partners than boys. The main factors influencing early intecourse are alkohol and drugs. More than a half (56.1 per cent) of questioned pointed out that the sexual education in their school was present and the students evaluated it by 4.77±2.26 points. The greater part wanted the lessons of sexual education to be a separate discipline which would be integrated into the obligatory educational program. 51,6 per cent of teenagers think that most effective method of sexual education is a lecture in the educational establishment but more boys than girls would prefer to talk about sexual themes with their friends (p<0,001). The peers are accepted as potential trainers of sexual education by boys. The girls would like to talk with family doctors and gynaecologists who could engage them and could talk clearly and understandable. When evaluating the choice of sexual education methods was evaluated that the youngest participants of the study choose passive method of education, the students of the 10th and 11th grades would choose the active method and the students of the 12th grade would choose the interactive method of education. The girls would like the lessons of sexual education to be differentiated according to the sex and the number of participants of such lesson would be much smaller than the boys would like. Conclusions. The sexual life of teenagers is not safe. The means of contraception are used only by half of respondents though most sexually active teenagers don’t have one constant partner. On the opinion of the students the most effective method of the sexual educations are the lessons in the educational enterprises but the teenagers evaluate them negatively and think that the extent of sexual education in school is not enough. |
