Sexual Health
498 peer-reviewed studies indexed
Development of a Social Media Campaign Promoting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Young Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men: Focus Group Findings from the Social Media and Sexual Health Campaign.
Focus groups with young Black and Latino men who have sex with men identified Instagram as the preferred platform and authenticity, lived experience, targeted marketing, sex positivity, and balance of humor with seriousness as key factors for effective PrEP messaging through social media influencers.
The socio-cultural aspects of sexual medicine: recommendations from the Fifth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM 2024).
Clinicians should approach patients with cultural humility and curiosity, and the International Society for Sexual Medicine should adopt a strong ethical perspective regarding female genital mutilation/cutting, penile circumcision, and unconsummated marriages.
Engaging adolescents in SRHR and family planning: from priorities to action.
This project aims to co-design a culturally relevant sexual and reproductive health (SRH) toolkit for adolescents aged 12-19 in semi-urban Pakistan by directly involving young people and key stakeholders through Priority Setting Partnerships, Participatory Action Research, and acceptability assessments.
Out of focus: limited representation of men's health needs in regional and global sexual and reproductive health policy.
Men's own sexual and reproductive health (SRH) was found to be 'a significantly neglected policy issue,' with less than half of analyzed global and regional SRH policies referencing men's SRH and only 16% purposefully outlining steps to address men's own SRH needs.
[Sexpairs research-action to promote young people's sexual health via the Internet and digital technology].
The Sexpairs research-action project explores how the Internet and digital technology can be used to promote sexual health among young people, raising reflections on professional positioning and reaching specific audiences such as people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses.
Exploring residents' and fellows' confidence in sexually transmitted infection management and confidential care for adolescents.
Among medical trainees, 54% were confident in confidential care and 81% were confident in STI management, with those receiving relevant training and those who recalled private discussions with their own healthcare provider as adolescents reporting significantly greater confidence.
'Silent Needs and Hidden Desires': Nurses' Perceptions of Sexual Healthcare for People With Physical and/or Intellectual Disabilities.
Nurses perceive sexual assistants as unregulated care providers working in anonymity who support people with physical and/or intellectual disabilities across the whole spectrum of their sexuality, and nurses are committed to normalising and regulating their role within a sound legal framework.
Sexual Well-Being After Bariatric Surgery Assessed with New Sexual Satisfaction Scale: A Case-Matched Study of Men and Women.
Postoperative bariatric surgery patients reported a 24% higher New Sexual Satisfaction Scale score compared to preoperative patients, with significant improvements in sexual function observed in both men and women.
Exploring interactive stories for sexual health education among young adults in the USA.
The CYOA format is a promising tool for sexual health promotion among immigrant and refugee youth, as carefully designed interactive stories can significantly improve young adults' understanding and communication regarding sexual health.
What does it take to operationalise gender transformative approaches across different African contexts?
Africa's full potential is not realized due in part to the lack of progress and regression on gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights, raising the question of what it takes to operationalise gender transformative approaches across different African contexts.
The Role of School Nurses in Promoting Positive Sexual Health Education: A Scoping Review.
A scoping review found that school nurses make significant contributions to sexual education programs, with youth preferring external, qualified educators such as school nurses to deliver sexual education, though broader geographic representation in research is needed.
Changes in Clinic-Level STI Burden After Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Implementation in an Urban Sexual Health Clinic.
Implementation of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) in an urban sexual health clinic was associated with a subsequent decrease in clinic-level chlamydia and syphilis positivity, but no change in overall gonorrhea positivity.
Nursing Students' Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators in Providing Sexual Health Care to Psychiatric Patients: A Descriptive Qualitative Study.
Nursing students face educational, cultural, and systemic barriers that complicate sexual health care in psychiatric settings, and targeted educational programs and institutional support are needed to better prepare students for sexual health discussions in clinical practice.
Impact of a comprehensive two-year research capacity intervention with sexual and reproductive health researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
A two-year research capacity intervention with faculty members and clinicians in Uganda and Rwanda significantly improved research competence on nearly every item of the CRAI-12 scale, with the exception of confidence in asking staff to leave the project team and locating appropriate grant application forms.
Towards an inclusive and culturally sensitive conceptualisation of sexual well-being of young people: preliminary framework development using a modified Delphi methodology.
A modified Delphi study co-created with 15 young SRHR professionals from across Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America produced a culturally sensitive framework recognising sexual well-being as a subjective concept requiring both individual capabilities and an enabling environment.
How Can We Ensure Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Information for Adolescents in Light of Australia's Social Media Restrictions?
Australia's social media restrictions for users under 16 raise critical questions about how adolescents will access sexual and reproductive health information, given that traditional systems often fall short and social media has become an important source of SRH education.
Development of a survey to assess sexual health knowledge, behaviour and help-seeking of Australian-born men travelling to Southeast Asia: findings from the NEXUS2 study.
Australian-born men travelling to Southeast Asia demonstrated sexual health knowledge gaps, inconsistent protective behaviours and low awareness of prevention strategies, warranting broader survey implementation to generate national data to support targeted interventions.
Accuracy, readability, and understandability of European Association of Urology guidelines bot for Sexual and Reproductive Health Guidelines.
The EAU Guidelines Bot represents an accurate and reliable tool for Sexual and Reproductive Health Guidelines navigation, but further validation is required to evaluate its applicability in clinical practice.
Men's gender role and attitude toward sexual autonomy of women in India.
Sixty-three percent of Indian men hold a favorable attitude toward women's sexual autonomy, with egalitarian views on household decision-making, higher educational attainment, married status, media exposure, working status, and wealthier household strata positively associated with such support.
Advancing a Measure of Sexual and Reproductive Well-Being Aligned With Core Values of Reproductive Justice and Human Rights.
An 18-month collaborative process was engaged to develop a definition of sexual and reproductive well-being aligned with reproductive justice and human rights values, with the goal of informing a self-reported, population-level measure that can illuminate the extent to which structures and systems enable optimal sexual and reproductive experiences.
Sexual function in chronic illness and cancer perspectives of the patient, partner, and healthcare provider; innovations; and updates: recommendations from the Fifth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM 2024).
Chronic illness and cancer have considerable direct and indirect impacts on sexual function and relationships, and recognizing and addressing these issues is essential to optimize care for individuals and their partners.
Psychosexual health's impact on non-suicidal self-injury of college students.
Psychosexual health significantly negatively predicts non-suicidal self-injury behaviors in college students, with adult attachment and social support serving as mediating pathways between them.
L-Serovar Rectal Chlamydia trachomatis in Patients Who Were Male-Assigned at Birth Attending Two Sexual Health Clinics, Baltimore, Maryland 2009-2016.
Lymphogranuloma venereum accounted for almost 7% of rectal Chlamydia trachomatis in patients male-assigned at birth attending sexual health clinics in Baltimore between 2009 and 2016, and was not associated with prevalent or incident HIV as in other studies.
Men in the Movement: A Gender Equality Intervention for Young Men of Color in Louisiana.
Men in the Movement is an intervention that trained two male youth education interns to facilitate discussions with about 100 young men of color in Louisiana about sexual health, healthy relationships, social justice, advocacy, and leadership to promote gender-equitable attitudes and behaviors.
Reducing non-sterile glove use in a sexual health and HIV department: A quality improvement project to address clinical practices.
Staff education, including video guidance, educational presentations, and patient-facing posters, was successful in reducing inappropriate non-sterile glove use in a Sexual Health and HIV department, with a 45.2% decrease in glove procurement observed.
Using mHealth to provide sexual and reproductive health services to young people in rural Ghana: health care providers' perspectives.
Innovative mHealth platforms have the potential to improve young people's access to conventional SRH information and services in rural Ghana, demonstrating acceptability and utility among health care providers who report benefits including ease and convenience, low cost, anonymity, privacy and confidentiality, reduced healthcare delivery workload, and reduced pressure on limited health infrastructure.
Enhancing adolescent knowledge and attitudes: the impact of peer mentorship on sexual and reproductive health in senior high school, Batam.
Peer mentorship interventions over three months significantly influenced adolescents' knowledge and attitudes about sexual and reproductive health in senior high school students in Batam, Indonesia.
Lessons from COVID-19 for sexually transmitted infections: Listening and learning from young adults and healthcare providers on sexual health communications dynamics and decisions in four states.
Lessons from COVID-19 pandemic communications can improve STI messaging by aligning multiple trusted sources, increasing provider accountability for affirming sexual health discussions, and supporting patient-driven communications to address individualized STI information needs.
"We are on our own": The neglected voices of the boy-child in adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa.
Boys in Vhembe District felt neglected and isolated in adolescent sexual and reproductive health services, which they perceived as centred around girls, forcing them to rely on peers for distorted sexual health information.
An mHealth App-Based Social Capital Intervention (PrEP US NoW) to Improve Sexual Health and Uptake of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among Young, Black, Sexual Minority Men: Protocol for Intervention Development and a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
PrEP US NoW is an mHealth app-based social capital intervention designed to improve PrEP uptake among young, Black, sexual minority men by engaging their social networks through Black female facilitators, with a pilot randomized controlled trial ongoing through December 2025.
Sexual behavior and preventive practices among truck drivers to prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections.
The findings reveal diverse sexual practices among truck drivers and identify factors associated with increased exposure to STIs, underscoring the need for strategies to promote the sexual health of this population.
Guy Talk, Precarious Masculinity, and Men's Sexual Health: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Men's Health Magazine Covers.
A qualitative content analysis of Men's Health magazine covers over nearly 40 years found that only 8% addressed men's sexual health, and that these coverlines used 'guy talk'—silly, ironic, or slang-laden verbiage—as a compensatory manhood act rooted in precarious masculinity that ultimately does a disservice to men's health and well-being.
Oral Rapid Self-Testing Intention for HIV Sexual Health Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Taiwan: A Theory-Driven Comparison of HIV Never-Testers and Ever-Testers.
Significant TPB factors and items associated with oral rapid self-testing intention varied by HIV testing experience among young men who have sex with men in Taiwan, with distinct predictors identified for never-testers versus ever-testers.
Qualitative insights on sexual health counselling from refugee youth in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda: Advancing contextual considerations for brief sexuality-related communication in a humanitarian setting.
Refugee youth in Bidi Bidi identified relational, symbolic, and material contextual dimensions—including trust, stigma, confidentiality, and resource access—as critical factors shaping willingness to engage in sexual health dialogue with healthcare providers in a humanitarian setting.
Person-centred HIV care and prevention for youth in rural South Africa: preliminary implementation findings from Thetha Nami ngithethe nawe stepped-wedge trial of peer-navigator mobilization into mobile sexual health services.
Community-based peer navigators reached 74.9% of youth in a rural South African population and successfully linked adolescents and young adults with mobile sexual and reproductive health services, achieving high HIV testing uptake and identifying substantial unmet prevention and care needs.
Developing a Culturally Sensitive Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health Education: Validating With the Fuzzy Delphi Method.
The Fuzzy Delphi Method was used to develop and validate a culturally sensitive sexual and reproductive health framework for Malaysia, resulting in 34 accepted criteria across four dimensions that prioritize culturally relevant factors shaping SRH communication.
Positive Sexual Aging: A Novel Concept and Bi-Country Development of a Brief Measure.
The Brief Positive Sexual Aging Scale (BIPSAS), a new 4-item measure grounded in the successful aging paradigm, demonstrated psychometric soundness and was invariant across country and age but not gender in probability-based samples of partnered adults aged 65+ from Norway and Croatia.
A pilot study, auditing digital communication to conduct sexual and reproductive health service outreach to Chinese- and Thai-speaking sex workers in Sydney.
A pilot study auditing WeChat and LINE platforms used by a Sydney sexual health service found these digital communication tools effectively reached Chinese- and Thai-speaking sex industry workers, with 329 total subscribers and an estimated average response time mode of 10 minutes over a 2-month period.
The impact of ageism on sexual health in older adults: an integrative review.
Both societal and internalized ageism negatively impacts sexual health in older adults across five domains: stigmatizing sexuality in aging populations, neglecting intimate environments, decreased sexual pleasure, overlooked sexual health concerns, and underestimation of sexual violence.
Experiences of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Discrimination in Sexual Healthcare Among Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults of Color.
Transgender and nonbinary young adults of color experience intersecting gender and racial discrimination in sexual healthcare settings and develop identity-affirming protective strategies to navigate these barriers.
Parent-adolescent communication on reproductive and sexual issues and its determinants among parents in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: a mixed-methods study.
Only 39.5% of parents in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia reported having discussions on reproductive and sexual health issues with their adolescents, with good parental knowledge, positive attitude, father's occupation, and family size identified as significant determinants.
Society of Family Planning Research Practice Support: Researcher and institutional review board considerations for sexual and reproductive health research with minor adolescents.
This guidance document provides SRH researchers, IRBs, and funders with knowledge and tools for the appropriate inclusion of minor adolescents in sexual and reproductive health research, urging against using age 18 as a cutoff for research inclusion.
Acceptability of self-collected oropharyngeal swabs for gonorrhoea and chlamydia screening among men who have sex with men in a sexual health clinic setting.
Although most gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men found oropharyngeal self-collection easy, nearly half preferred clinician collection, largely due to concerns about correct technique.
Sexual Health Education for Behavior Change: Revisiting How Much is Enough.
Delayed sexual initiation was directly associated with lesson exposure, with the greatest association observed at a duration of 13 or more lessons, and no single topic was predictive of delayed initiation in the multivariate model.
Evaluating the impact of the Programa Saúde na Escola on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Brazil: A quasi-experimental analysis using propensity score matching.
Although PSE participation increased adolescents' access to sexual and reproductive health guidance, no significant changes in effective condom use behavior were observed, suggesting that increased information alone does not translate into behavioral change.
[Sexual health, the forgotten factor in the overall health of people with severe mental disorders].
People with severe mental health problems experience more difficulties in their sexual lives than the general population, and sexual health remains a neglected dimension of their overall care.
Integrating hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus screening for migrants from endemic countries into travel-related and sexual health care in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Integrating HBV, HCV and HIV screening into routine travel-related and sexual health care for migrants from endemic countries is operationally feasible, with HBV screening at the Travel and Vaccination Center showing a high yield while HCV and HIV yields were low.
Pre-Implementation Assessment of a Sexual Health eClinic in Canadian Oncology Care.
Participants described SHAReClinic as a much-needed resource for prostate cancer survivors' sexual health, but limited funding, lack of institutional support, and workflow integration challenges emerged as primary barriers to implementation.
The waiting room: Unmet sexual health service needs among men and gender-diverse individuals having sex with men in England, findings from an online, cross-sectional community survey in 2024.
Despite high sexual health service engagement, one-in-eight men and gender-diverse individuals having sex with men in England reported unmet need for in-person sexual health services, with disparities by geography, financial status, and health condition.
Final Results From a Longitudinal Observation Study Evaluating Sexual Health and Facial Appearance and Distress in Human Papillomavirus-Associated Oropharyngeal Cancer Survivors Treated With Chemoradiotherapy.
Most sexual health outcomes impacted by (C)RT return to pretreatment levels by 3, 12, or 24 months, and temporary appearance distress was reported at the end of treatment in HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer survivors.