Sex and HIV/AIDS education in schools
- 12 August 1995
- Vol. 311 (7002) , 403
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7002.403
Abstract
When studies such as the two articles in this week's issue (pp 414, 417)1 2 evaluate the effectiveness of sex education programmes by measuring their impact on behaviour they apply standards that are not applied to most other school subjects. Most school teaching is evaluated by assessing its impact on knowledge and not on behaviour outside the classroom. Thus when research on sex education programmes uses outcomes …Keywords
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