Somebody Else's Job: Experiences of Sex Education among Health Professionals, Parents and Adolescents with Physical Disabilities in Southwestern Ontario
Somebody Else's Job: Experiences of Sex Education among Health Professionals, Parents and Adolescents with Physical Disabilities in Southwestern Ontario
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DOI：
10.1007/s11195-013-9289-5
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Orchard, Treena R.
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作者：
East, Lauri J.;Orchard, Treena R.
性是健康和发展的一个方面，在身体残疾者，特别是青少年中往往被忽视。研究表明，与没有残疾的同龄人相比，身体残疾青年的性知识水平低得多，接受的性教育不足。本文的数据是一项定性研究的一部分，该研究从年轻人本身、他们的父母和与他们一起工作的卫生专业人员的角度探讨了与身体残疾青年性教育相关的经验、障碍和挑战。这项研究的结果突出表明，家长、教育工作者和卫生专业人员倾向于将向身体残疾的年轻人提供性教育的责任交给他们认为更有资格处理这类情况的其他人。因此，调查结果表明，身体残疾的青少年并不总是能得到学校环境中全面的性教育、卫生专业人员提供的专门信息，家庭和同龄人的非正式性教育，以获得所需的知识和技能，了解自己的性能力，并就自己的性健康和亲密关系做出明智的决定关系。
Sexuality is an aspect of health and development that is often overlooked among people with physical disabilities, particularly adolescents. Studies have demonstrated that youth with physical disabilities show considerably lower levels of sexual knowledge and receive inadequate sex education compared to their peers without such disabilities. The data for this paper are part of a qualitative study that explored the experiences, barriers and challenges associated with sex education for youth with physical disabilities from the perspectives of young people themselves, their parents and the health professionals who work with them. The findings from this study highlight the tendency for parents, educators and health professionals to place the responsibility of delivering sex education to young people with physical disabilities on someone else who they believe to be more appropriately qualified to handle these types of situations. As a result, the findings illustrate that adolescents with physical disabilities do not always receive the necessary combination of comprehensive sex education within school environments, specialized information from health professionals, and informal sex education from family and peers that they require in order to gain the knowledge and skills needed to understand their own sexual capabilities and make informed decisions about their sexual health and intimate relationships.