%0 Journal Article
%T Health literacy improvement of eight grade students on reproductive health ¨C presentation of workshops £¿Communication, emotions, sexuality¡°
%A Ba£¿dari£¿
%A Ksenija
%A Fistoni£¿
%A Ivan
%A Lazarevi£¿ Rukavina
%A Ines
%A Pugel
%A Sanjin
%A Sorta-Bilajac Turina
%A Iva
%J -
%D 2019
%R 10.21860/medflum2019_216425
%X Sa£¿etak 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
%K communication
%K emotions
%K education
%K health literacy
%K reproductive health
%K sexuality
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