Clinical trial NCT06400758: Impact/Interest of a Collective Prevention Intervention in Sexual and Emotional Health
Official title: Impact/Interest of a Collective Prevention Intervention in Sexual and Emotional Health Among High School Students in Lower Normandy
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Public Health
Keywords: prevention
sexual health
students
Lead sponsor: Pole Sante Grace de Dieu
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-05-06
Enrollment: 450
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 15
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Intervention in a school setting. This intervention is part of a biology course (Life and Earth Sciences). It is a class project. Theoretically, all high school students are recruited.

Brief summary: Main objective To measure the effects of a group prevention intervention on the sexual and affective knowledge of high school students in the Basse-Normandie region.

Secondary objective Take stock of what is known about the sexual and emotional health of teenagers.

Detailed description: With the average age at first sexual intercourse in France being 17.6 for girls and 17.2 for boys, according to the 2010 health barometer, sexuality education and prevention seem essential at this age, and upstream.

An Australian qualitative study of young men aged 18 to 24 revealed that the main obstacles to discussing sexual health in general practice included the possibility of embarrassment and the fact that the subject was private. Most said they would only talk to their doctor about a sexual problem if it was very important or urgent: if not, they would prefer to wait for the doctor to initiate the subject.

Sexual health prevention initiatives are therefore essential outside the general practitioner's office, and have been shown to be effective in high schools. This is why the PSLA de la Grâce de Dieu has initiated sexual and emotional health prevention initiatives for students at a high school in Caen.

It therefore seemed interesting to assess these students' knowledge of sexual and emotional health before the PSLA's intervention in the amphitheatre with the students, and then after the intervention, in order to find out whether this large-scale prevention action had an impact on these students' knowledge, in the short and medium term.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* school students in the 2023-2024 school year

Exclusion Criteria:

* A newsletter was sent to the school's head teachers, the students' parents and the students themselves, informing them of the possible use of the data for research purposes, and the possibility of objecting. The principal teachers provided information on the non-obligation to respond during the distribution of the questionnaires. Students who did not respond to the questionnaire were therefore not included.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Rate of knowledge improvement between before and after the intervention
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Caen
country: France
facility: PSLA GDD
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