Sexual Health
498 peer-reviewed studies indexed
Sexual health in women and sexual-gender-minority patients with cancer: A nationwide survey on healthcare professional awareness and attitude on behalf of MITO and AIRO-gynecology group.
Despite high attitude among Italian oncological providers to discuss iatrogenic sexual dysfunctions, the study highlighted significant gaps and barriers in knowledge, and an urgent need for specific training and guidelines on sex-related health issues in women and SGM patients with cancer.
Stakeholder mapping: advancing research on sexual and reproductive health policies and income protection for cisgender and transgender female sex workers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Stakeholder mapping proved to be a valuable tool for understanding the political landscape while ethically centering the voices of female sex workers, identifying 147 key actors across sectors with 16% as promoters, 68% as supporters, and 10% as blockers of sexual and reproductive health policies in Buenos Aires.
Observations of Communication Practices Between Men Who Have Sex With Men With HIV and HIV Specialist Nurses During Routine Consultations Regarding Sexual Health Counseling in the Netherlands: A Qualitative Study.
HIV specialist nurses demonstrated inconsistent coverage of sexual health topics, varied content, lack of structure, and inconsistent application of communication skills and techniques during routine consultations with men who have sex with men with HIV in the Netherlands.
A Nationally Representative Analysis of Substance Use and Sexual Health Correlates Associated with HIV and STI Testing among Adolescents.
Females engaging in substance use had increased odds of HIV and STI testing whereas that pattern did not reflect among males, highlighting the need for tailored HIV and STI testing promotion among adolescents.
Validity and reliability of the Arabic version of the sexual health literacy scale in young Syrian refugees.
The Arabic version of the Sexual Health Literacy Scale demonstrated acceptable validity and reliability (Cronbach's Alpha = 0.85) with two sub-dimensions and 16 items in a sample of young Syrian refugee university students.
Setting stakeholder-led research priorities for advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Bangladesh using CHNRI method: an icddr,b initiative.
A stakeholder-led CHNRI prioritisation exercise identified 197 unique sexual and reproductive health and rights research questions in Bangladesh, with the top 20 priorities spanning adolescent health, fertility, gynaecological issues, maternal and neonatal health, and SRH of key populations.
Effects of a whole-school relationships and sexual health intervention on non-competent sexual debut: cluster-randomised trial.
Positive Choices did not prevent non-competent sexual debut (primary outcome) or impact secondary outcomes compared with usual RSE, possibly explained by weak fidelity of whole-school elements and/or comprehensive RSE in control schools.
The impact of medical expert-led sex education on sexual health knowledge among Japanese junior high school students: a quantitative study.
Sex education delivered by gynecologists led to significant gains in knowledge and awareness and may have contributed to more positive attitudes toward sexual and reproductive health among male and female students.
A Media Literacy Education Approach to Sexual Health Promotion: Immediate Effects of Media Aware on the Sexual Health Cognitions of Young Adult Community College Students.
Media Aware, a comprehensive sex education program with a media literacy education approach, showed several significant improvements in sexual health cognitions among young adult community college students, suggesting it is 'a promising method to improve the sexual health of young adults attending community college.'
A Mobile App (MyPeer) Co-Designed With Immigrant Adolescents for Better Sexual and Reproductive Health: Usability Study.
The MyPeer mobile app, co-designed with immigrant adolescents using community-based participatory research and human-centered design principles, demonstrated promising usability and appeal as a culturally relevant sexual and reproductive health digital tool.
Reaching people who use drugs with sexual and reproductive healthcare through syringe services programs: potential promise and missed opportunities.
SSP use was disproportionately low among Black participants irrespective of injection drug use, and while SSPs offer opportunity to address elevated STI risk among people who use drugs, they may miss certain intersecting gender, race, and ethnic groups.
Sexual Health in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: A Cross-Sectional Study.
AD significantly affects patients' quality of life, including their sex life, with many factors associated with the disease contributing to the deterioration of patients' sexual health, suggesting routine assessment of sexual life in dermatological practice using validated tools.
An Innovative Clinic-Based Intervention to Improve Adolescent Access to Sexual and Mental Health Services: The Total Teen Program.
The Total Teen program improved access to sexual and reproductive health and mental health services for at-risk adolescents across three clinic settings, with gender and sexual behavior scores significantly associated with service utilization.
Sexual Health Determinants During the Life Course and Migration of Haitian-Origin People in French Guiana: Protocol for the Parcours d'Haïti Biographical and Transdisciplinary Study.
The Parcours d'Haïti study describes a mixed-methods, transdisciplinary protocol to assess HIV risk, sexual behaviors, and broader health determinants among Haitian-origin people residing in French Guiana, using biographical, epidemiological, qualitative, and phylogenetic components.
Barriers and facilitators to providing sexual health programming at community colleges across the United States: a qualitative study with administrators, faculty, and staff.
Six major themes were identified as barriers and facilitators to sexual health programming at community colleges, including limited budgets, need for administrator buy-in, overworked champions, student engagement challenges, concerns about mandatory programming, and the role of on-campus housing.
Parent-child communication on sexual and reproductive health: a qualitative study exploring the perspectives of parents, adolescents and young adults in the region of Kaolack, Senegal.
Parent-child communication on sexual and reproductive health in Kaolack, Senegal varies from 'effective but selective communication (on some SRH topics) to no communication at all,' with cultural taboos, gendered dynamics, and parental unpreparedness as key barriers.
Availability, acceptability and uptake of Sexual Reproductive Health interventions for young people with disabilities in Sub Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol.
This paper presents a protocol for a scoping review aimed at mapping existing literature on the availability, acceptability, and uptake of sexual reproductive health service delivery interventions for young people with disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Sexual health literacy and sexual and reproductive health service seeking among young people in Türkiye: levels and determining factors.
Sexual health literacy among Turkish youth was at a moderate level and was positively associated with sexual and reproductive health service seeking, with limited sexual health literacy potentially restricting access to sexual and reproductive health services.
Sexual health and challenges among 15-89-year-old Danes with and without severe visual impairment: Baseline findings in a nationally representative cohort study.
The study underscores significant sexual health challenges among individuals with severe visual impairment, notably victimization (both genders) and unsafe sex (men), with additional findings of higher rates of same-sex sexual experiences and non-heterosexual identities among visually impaired women.
Empowering Youth Through Evidence: Applying Outcome Harvesting to Evaluate Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Advocacy in Ethiopia.
Outcome Harvesting evaluation of the Power to You(th) programme in Ethiopia (2021–2023) revealed substantial improvements in youth participation in decision-making, advocacy capacity, and awareness of SRH rights, with community attitudes shifting positively and youth-led networks emerging as powerful agents of change.
Exploring the sexual and reproductive health and rights policies and their relationship to the Termination of Pregnancy Act (1977) and bodily autonomy and integrity in Zimbabwe: a multimethod research protocol.
This paper presents a multimethod research protocol to review and analyse sexual and reproductive health and rights policies and their relationship to Zimbabwe's Termination of Pregnancy Act (1977) and bodily autonomy and integrity.
Effect of a digital intervention on sexual and reproductive health knowledge, behaviour, and service uptake among university youths in Lagos, Nigeria: a quasi-experimental study.
An mHealth comprehensive sexuality education intervention improved SRH knowledge, increased condom use, and enhanced utilisation of SRH services among university students in Lagos, Nigeria, though its effect on risky sexual behaviours was mixed.
Sexual Health After Neurological Disorders: A Comprehensive Umbrella Review of Treatment Evidence.
Evidence supports PDE5 inhibitors for improving erectile function in men with spinal cord injury, while evidence for other interventions and sexual health domains remains limited, with most systematic reviews rated critically low or low confidence.
Patriarchal dominance and relationship: couple communication's mediating effect on sexual and reproductive health outcomes among Rohingya refugee women.
Couple communication significantly mediated the influence of husband's approval of family planning and couples' broad relational breadth on women's contraceptive use, SRH behavior, and husbands' support in SRH among Rohingya refugee women.
From Taboo to Touchscreen: A Qualitative Study of Digital Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention for Bangladeshi Adolescents.
The Mukhorito peer-led mobile app showed strong potential as a culturally relevant digital SRH education tool for Bangladeshi adolescents, enabling knowledge gains and greater openness in SRH discourse, while facing adoption barriers including limited smartphone access and unreliable internet connectivity.
Narratives of men and women from the southeastern region of Brazil on some aspects of sexual and reproductive health, sexual life and contraception: a qualitative study.
Narratives of Brazilian men and women reveal perspectives and behaviours related to reproductive health, sexual life, and contraceptive use that 'can affect health and general wellbeing,' highlighting the need for routine discussion of SRH in healthcare and community settings.
The Relationship Between Sexual Health Literacy and Sexual Myths Among Health Science Students: A Cross-Sectional Study in Türkiye.
Sexual myths among health science students are influenced by their level of sexual health literacy, with the knowledge and attitude subdimensions of sexual health literacy significantly predicting total sexual myth scores.
Cluster analysis of caregiver and adolescent emotion regulation and its relation to sexual health and dating communication.
Distinct profiles of caregiver and adolescent emotion regulation were identified, with findings suggesting that adolescent ER may more strongly influence positive patterns of communication regarding sexual health and relationships than parent ER.
Voices and visions: Navigating the landscape of sexual, reproductive, and maternal health and rights in Latin America and the Caribbean: A stakeholder mapping and analysis.
A stakeholder mapping and analysis identified and categorized key actors operating in Sexual, Reproductive, and Maternal Health and Rights (SRMHR) across seven Latin American and Caribbean countries, finding that their actions shape, promote, or hinder the SRMHR political agenda in the region.
Evaluation of the Mississippi Title X Family Planning Program in Meeting Reproductive and Sexual Health Needs.
Implementation of the Title X family planning program in Mississippi faced challenges including understaffing, high staff turnover, documentation difficulties, and low patient awareness, while clinic staff reported use of evidence-based practices and potential patients identified needs for person-centered care.
Preferences for eHealth interventions to improve sexual health and prevent HIV for Vietnamese young men who have sex with men.
eHealth interventions have great potential to meet the diverse sexual health needs of adolescent and young men who have sex with men (AYMSM) in Vietnam, but concerns about trustworthiness and confidentiality must be addressed to make them more appealing and accessible.
Fostering Healthy Relationships in Special Olympic Athletes: Supporting the Intersection of Intellectual Disability and Sexual Health.
Special Olympics athletes with intellectual disabilities value healthy relationships and want to learn more about sexual health, but face significant barriers to accessing appropriate sexual health education.
A Cross-Sectional Study of Sexual Health and Well-Being in Married or Cohabitating Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Nouna, Burkina Faso.
Married and cohabitating middle-aged and older adults in Nouna, Burkina Faso reported high rates of sexual activity, with significant variability in sexual health and well-being across sex, age, and education levels.
A culturally relevant sexual health campaign for Latino gay and bisexual men in a Southern U.S. Metropolitan area.
A two-phase qualitative approach using focus group discussions with key informants and Latino gay and bisexual men in Atlanta produced a framework for developing a culturally relevant sexual health campaign that emphasizes expert collaboration, community engagement, trusted communication channels, and avoidance of stereotypes.
Impact of androgen deprivation therapy on sexual health in patients who underwent brachytherapy for prostate cancer.
Restoring sexual health extends beyond the normalization of testosterone levels following cessation of ADT, with a significant time lag between testosterone recovery and improvement of erectile function and sexual QOL after brachytherapy.
Urinary incontinence and sexuality: a district nurse's role.
District nurses play a crucial role in addressing urinary incontinence and its impact on sexual wellbeing through holistic, patient-centred care, comprehensive continence assessments, and promotion of open communication.
The ethical and economic aspects of sexual medicine: recommendations from the Fifth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM 2024).
The internet and economic transformations have created major ethical challenges in sexual medicine, including non-evidence-based information, exploitation of male anxiety about penis size, unregulated dietary supplements, and significant barriers to accessing sexual healthcare globally.
Perceptions of the Military Health System: Differences in Sexual and Reproductive Health Burden Among Males and Females.
Female service members bear a disproportionate burden of sexual and reproductive health care responsibility within the Military Health System, receiving more counseling than males but rating their healthcare experiences lower and feeling less comfortable in those interactions.
Addressing sexual health among patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.
Having several immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) was associated with a greater impact on sexual health, with participants with multiple IMIDs reporting a higher prevalence of difficulties than those with only one IMID.
Identifying promising or priority effective adolescent, sexual and reproductive health interventions in Ghana: what frameworks should guide the selection of interventions?
Identifying effective priority interventions for addressing the SRH needs of adolescents is a consultative process facilitated by proven and valid frameworks adapted to align with specific country contexts, with four top interventions identified for Ghana: adolescent health clubs, girls' empowerment through comprehensive sexuality education, national capacity-building for integrated family planning and maternal health services, and eHealth/digital health programmes.
The Effect of Animated Videos on Adolescent Awareness of Sexual Health Risks and HIV Prevention.
Short animated videos significantly improved adolescent reproductive health knowledge, with the proportion demonstrating 'good' knowledge rising from 17.3% at pre-test to 89.3% at the third post-test (p = .001).
Optimising adolescents and young adults' utilisation of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Chad: a sensemaking approach.
Empowering adolescents and young adults in health decision-making requires an adaptable approach considering individual experiences, interpersonal influences and systemic factors to enhance engagement with healthcare services, increase service utilisation and treatment adherence in Chad.
Unmasking the systemic inequalities undermining refugee sexual and reproductive health and rights, intimacy, and access in Lebanon.
Systemic inequalities including legal restrictions, cultural norms, and discrimination act as key vectors for restricting and conditioning SRHR access for Syrian, Palestinian, Iraqi, and Sudanese refugees in Lebanon.
Sexual and domestic violence enquiry: A national exploratory survey of asking and telling in sexual health services in the UK.
A national exploratory survey of 62 UK sexual health services found 'variable practice around asking, collating data, referral, training and staff supervision' regarding sexual and domestic violence/abuse enquiry.
Adolescent Youth Survey on HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Education in Alabama: Protocol for a Web-Based Survey With Fraud Protection Study.
This paper describes the protocol for a web-based survey (N=206) examining HIV prevention knowledge, PrEP awareness, and sexual health education gaps among sexual and gender minority adolescents aged 14-17 in Alabama, including a 7-step fraud and bot detection protocol for web-based recruitment.
How do school-going adolescents in KwaZulu-Natal perceive sexual and reproductive health and rights? A qualitative study.
School-going adolescents in KwaZulu-Natal received inadequate sexual education and information from teachers, parents, and churches, and the classroom environment was too noisy and uncontrollable to promote learning about sexual and reproductive health.
Digital and data capabilities for sexual and reproductive health: a participatory interdisciplinary approach to workforce transformation.
The Digital and Data Capability for Sexual and Reproductive Health (DDCSRH) Models and associated resources 'respond to stated workforce needs and challenges, promoting a shared vocabulary and conceptual framework to support strategic engagement with current and emergent digital and data technologies, policies and practice.'
Positive psychological capital and adolescent psychosexual health: the moderating roles of gender and autonomy.
Positive psychological capital was significantly and positively associated with adolescent psychosexual health, with autonomy amplifying these beneficial effects, while gender did not show a significant moderating effect.
Challenges of parent-adolescent communication on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A quantitative study.
The comprehensive level of discussion on sexual and reproductive health issues between adolescents and parents in Addis Ababa was found to be only 5.7%, with shame, embarrassment, lack of knowledge, and cultural unacceptability identified as major barriers.
Implementing routine sexual and reproductive health screening into an Australian child and youth mental health service: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.
This paper describes the protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial examining the preliminary feasibility, effectiveness, and acceptability of an educational intervention to train mental health clinicians to conduct brief sexual and reproductive health screening with adolescents attending a child and youth mental health service.