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IntroductionA mature and fulfilling sexuality is based on appropriate sexual education. The message must be adapted to the level of knowledge and practices of young people. Old studies dating back more than 15 years have been published.ObjectivesThe objective of this study is to assess adolescents’ knowledge and attitudes about sexuality.MethodsThis is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted among 80 adolescents using an anonymous online questionnaire.ResultsThe average age of the participants was 18 years old 45% had had at least one sexual intercourse, they are mostly male. Only 9% had used a method of contraception. Most of them had heard of contraceptive techniques. Young age, male gender, lack of dialogue with parents, low socio-economic status and lack of sex education were significantly associated with a low level of knowledge about sexuality.ConclusionsThe results show that adolescents had risky practices with a lack of information. More studies are needed to approve these results and improve sexual health of these teenagers thanks to targeted sensitization.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Adolescence is a critical period for lifelong health, which makes access to accurate and comprehensive sexuality education essential. As video platforms become a primary source of information for adolescents, the quality of their content significantly impacts their physical and mental health. This study aimed to evaluate the quality, reliability, understandability, and actionability of adolescent sexuality education videos on major Chinese platforms (Bilibili, TikTok or Douyin, and Kwai), analyze associated user comment sentiment and topics, identify predictors of quality and reliability, and provide recommendations. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted (April 2025) on the top 100 comprehensively ranked comprehensive sexuality education videos (N=300 total) retrieved from each platform using the keyword (\"adolescent sexuality education\"). Videos were assessed using the Global Quality Score, modified DISCERN, and Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT-U/A), with interrater reliability assessed via Cohen κ. A corpus of over 49,000 user comments underwent sentiment analysis (fine-tuned RoBERTa) and topic modeling (BERTopic, yielding 29 topics grouped into 6 themes). Statistical analyses included Kruskal-Wallis H tests, Spearman correlations, and stepwise linear regressions (SPSS [version 27.0]; P<.05). Video quality and reliability were moderate on Bilibili and TikTok but generally poor on Kwai. Content from verified sources (physicians, educators, and institutional media) demonstrated superior quality and stability compared to highly variable content from individual media (the predominant source type, especially on Kwai; 87/100, 87%). Paradoxically, Kwai exhibited the highest user engagement despite the lowest quality scores. Understandability (PEMAT-U) was consistently the strongest positive predictor for both quality (Global Quality Score, final model adjusted R =0.383, β=0.485) and reliability (modified DISCERN, final model adjusted R =0.209, β=0.319). Actionability (PEMAT-A) and video duration were also significant positive predictors. Understandability scores (PEMAT-U) were generally high (approximately 69%), while actionability scores (PEMAT-A) were moderate to low (33%-50%). Sentiment analysis revealed that comments were predominantly neutral (35,372/49,680, 71.2%), with negative comments (9141/49,680, 18.4%) significantly outweighing positive ones (5167/49,680, 10.4%). Key discussion themes identified included sources of knowledge acquisition, sexual safety and prevention, physiology, and sexual health and practices. While online video platforms offer accessible channels for adolescent sexuality education in China, the current content is often of moderate-to-poor quality, with questionable reliability and limited actionability. Understandability is paramount, but high engagement does not necessarily correlate with high quality or reliability, potentially amplifying misinformation. To effectively empower youth, critical steps include enhancing content quality by adhering to evidence-based frameworks like the International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education; strengthening platform accountability through improved verification and algorithms; and promoting user media literacy. These measures aim to foster a healthier and more equitable future for Chinese adolescents, helping to achieve goals related to sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy prevention and promoting more open societal attitudes toward sexuality.

Background Advancing the health of adolescents, particularly their sexual and reproductive health, including HIV prevention and care, is a development imperative. A critical part for improving their wellbeing and economic development is the social status accorded to adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). However, AGYW in many countries including Zambia, encounter health challenges that stem from gender inequalities, lack of empowerment, inaccurate knowledge on sexuality, and poor access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and information. Addressing the knowledge gaps through comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and improving access to SRH services and appropriate information, should reduce school attrition from early and unintended pregnancies (EUP) and enhance realization of their full potential. Methods The aim was to reduce EUP and improve SRH outcomes among AGYW in Zambia through provision of CSE linked to receptive SRH services. A 3-Arm randomized control study collected cross-sectional data at baseline, midline and Endline. Schools where CSE was being routinely provided were randomized into a non-intervention arm (arm1), an intervention arm in which information on available SRH services was provided in schools by health workers to complement CSE, (arm 2), and arm 3 in which pupils receiving CSE were also encouraged or supported to access pre-sensitized, receptive SRH services. Results Following 3 years of intervention exposure (CSE-Health Facility linkages), findings showed a significant decline of in-school pregnancies amongst AGYW in both intervention arms, with arm two exhibiting a more significant decline, having recorded only 0.74% pregnancies at endline ( p  < 0.001), as well as arm 3, which recorded 1.34% pregnancies ( p  < 0.001). No significant decline was recorded in the CSE only control arm. Trends in decline of pregnancies started to show by midline, and persisted at endline (2020), and when difference in differences test was applied, the incident rate ratios (IRR) between the none and exposed arms were equally significant ( p  < 0.001). Conclusion Linking provision of CSE with accessible SRH services that are receptive to needs of adolescents and young people reduces EUP, which provides the opportunity for higher retention in school for adolescent girls. Plain English summary Among Zambia’s key health and development challenges, are high rates of EUP, and disproportionately higher HIV rates among AGYW. Pregnancy among girls in school poses a challenge. CSE programmes are part of available armamentarium to improve knowledge on the risks. Poor SRH places a heavy strain on health systems and undermines sustainable development efforts. In response to these challenges, we initiated implementation research to develop and test a model linking CSE programs in schools with access to SRH services and information. Research was conducted in 23 schools and their local catchment health care facilities in two North Western province districts of Zambia. Following baseline data collection, schools were selected to ensure comparability of indicators such as reported pregnancy rates, CSE, and subsequently randomized into three study arms, with the first arm continuing standard instruction of CSE (control). The second arm was designed to bring information on available SRH services to schools, including raising awareness through health fares and clubs. In the third arm, health providers were trained to be more receptive to ASRH health needs, in addition to encouraging teachers to introduce students to health services. Pregnancies declined in all intervention arms at endline, with marked reductions in intervention Arm 2 which recorded 0.74% of in school pregnancies ( p  < O.001), followed by arm 3, with 1.34% ( p  < 0.001). The decline in intervention arms was more than 50% in intervention arms, as compared with control arm, and significantly lower, as a proportion of AGYW in arm 2, followed by arm 3.

As reported by the World Health Organization in 2017, there are 2 million+ young people living with HIV worldwide. The World Health Organization also reported that a third of all new HIV infections around the world are estimated to occur among youths (aged 15–25). and teen pregnancy rates are on the rise in many places. These worrying trends suggest that existing sexuality education programs and interventions may be inadequate and/or ineffective. Although the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development’s (ICPD) Programme of Action highlighted the roles of Governments to offer sex education to young people to promote teenage reproductive health, yet inconsistency exists in the related initiatives in the global context. The present article aims to provide a comprehensive literature review of the existing sexuality programs in selected places in both English-speaking (i.e., the United States of America, the United Kingdom) and Chinese-speaking contexts (i.e., Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan). Based on the review, observations and implications for sexuality education policy and practice, as well as recommendations for future research for youths are outlined.

We analyzed cross-sectional data collected from a U.S. nationally representative survey of individuals ages 14–24 years old on what sources of information from the past year they considered to be the most helpful about how to have sex ( n  = 600 adolescents ages 14–17 years old, and n  = 666 young adults ages 18–24 years old). Among the 324 adolescents who indicated that they had been helped by at least one source of information, helpful information was most likely to have come from parents (31.0%) and friends (21.6%). Only 8.4% of adolescents said pornography was helpful. However, for those in the 18–24-year-old age group, pornography was the most commonly endorsed helpful source (24.5%), as compared to other possible options such as sexual partners, friends, media, and health care professionals. Multivariable regression analyses revealed that indicating that pornography was the most helpful source of information about how to have sex, compared to the other sources, was inversely associated with being female ( OR  = 0.32, p  = .001), inversely associated with identifying as bisexual compared to heterosexual ( OR  = 0.15, p  = .038), positively associated with being Black compared to being white non-Hispanic ( OR  = 4.26, p  = .021), inversely associated with reporting a household income of either $25 K to $49,999 ( OR  = 0.31, p  = .010) or $50 K to $74,999 ( OR  = 0.36, p  = .019) compared to more than $75 K, and positively associated with having masturbated ( OR  = 13.20, p  = .005). Subsequent research should investigate the role of pornography in both adolescent and adult sexual development, including why one-quarter of U.S. young adults say that pornography is a helpful source of information about how to have sex and what they think that they are learning from it.

This study examined family structural variables (family income, parental education, and maternal marital status) and process variables (maternal monitoring, mother-adolescent general communication, mother-adolescent sexual communication, and maternal attitudes about adolescent sexual behavior) as predictors of indices of adolescent sexual behavior and risk due to sexual behavior in 907 Black and Hispanic families from Montgomery, Alabama, New York City, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The findings indicated that family-structure variables failed to predict adolescent sexual behavior. In contrast, each of three family-process variables predicted multiple indices of adolescent sexual behavior and risk due to sexual behavior. Neither adolescent gender nor ethnicity qualified the findings. Differences did emerge among the three locations and by reporter (adolescent of mother) of the family process variables.

School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) can help adolescents achieve their full potential and realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is particularly pressing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where high rates of unintended pregnancy and STIs among adolescents can limit countries' ability to capitalize on the demographic dividend. While many LMICs have developed CSE curricula, their full implementation is often hindered by challenges around program planning and roll-out at the national and local level. A better understanding of these barriers, and similarities and differences across countries, can help devise strategies to improve implementation; yet few studies have examined these barriers. This paper analyzes the challenges to the implementation of national CSE curricula in four LMICs: Ghana, Kenya, Peru and Guatemala. It presents qualitative findings from in-depth interviews with central and local government officials, civil society representatives, and community level stakeholders ranging from religious leaders to youth representatives. Qualitative findings are complemented by quantitative results from surveys of principals, teachers who teach CSE topics, and students aged 15-17 in a representative sample of 60-80 secondary schools distributed across three regions in each country, for a total of around 3000 students per country. Challenges encountered were strikingly similar across countries. Program planning-related challenges included insufficient and piecemeal funding for CSE; lack of coordination of the various efforts by central and local government, NGOs and development partners; and inadequate systems for monitoring and evaluating teachers and students on CSE. Curriculum implementation-related challenges included inadequate weight given to CSE when integrated into other subjects, insufficient adaptation of the curriculum to local contexts, and limited stakeholder participation in curriculum development. While challenges were similar across countries, the strategies used to overcome them were different, and offer useful lessons to improve implementation for these and other low- and middle-income countries facing similar challenges.

Little research exists to describe sexual and romantic relationships among adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from their perspectives. Sexuality and intimacy are developmentally important and influence health and quality of life for all adolescents and young adults, including those with ASD. This study explored and compared the sex and relationship experiences of 27 adolescents and young adults with ASD (males = 20). Adolescents and young adults participated in semi-structured interviews to explore this topic. Using theme analysis, we uncovered four thematic categories: (1) interest in relationships, (2) ideal partners, (3) realities of adolescent and young adult relationships, and (4) advice about sex and relationships. Although many adolescents and young adults expressed wanting a relationship, few reported having partners. Among those that did, their actual relationships rarely met ideals. Most adolescents and young adults talked with parents and friends but not healthcare providers about sex and relationships. All adolescents and young adults described the need for additional education. Adolescents and young adults express the need for education that covers basic safety and sexual health topics as well as social/relationship skills building and courtship modeling. These findings can inform the design of tailored sexual health intervention. Future research should examine specific issues related to sexuality from the adolescents’ and young adults’ perspectives.

IntroductionWhat topics from their personal lives do patients bring to talk to the clinical team, in addition to reporting their health-illness complaints, being examined, and receiving medical and nursing guidance? Knowing the symbolic aspects of the professional-patient relationship allows for care with more empathy and greater adherence to outpatient service follow-ups. The sociocultural contexts of vulnerable adolescents amplify the importance of reproductive health care and understanding perceptions about romantic relationships and sexuality. During adolescence, risky behaviours can interfere with life opportunities and the future. The lack of care for adolescents’ reproductive health is associated with irreparable physical and psychosocial consequences. In Brazil, the Unified Health System functions as an important support for the community.ObjectivesTo interpret the symbolic meanings attributed by pregnant teenagers regarding the possible experience of talking and receiving guidance about romantic relations and sexuality from the clinical team of public primary attention (in the EPA-2023, we presented the work “on family relationships”, another branch belonging to the same PhD research).MethodsWe used the Clinical-Qualitative Method (Turato. Portuguese Psychos. J, 2000 2(1): 93-108). For data collection, the main researcher used the Semi-Directed Interview with Open-ended Questions In-Depth and Field Notes, fully transcript. The employ of the Seven Steps of the Clinical-Qualitative Content Analysis (Faria-Schützer et al. Cien Saude Colet. 2021; 26(1): 265-274) permits the solid discussion categories. Sample closed by saturation information criterion (Fontanella et al. Cad Saude Publica. 2008; 24(1): 17-27).ResultsSample of 10 adolescents, from 15 to 19 years. Interviewed by the first author, a female psychologist, online from September 2020 to June 2022. Findings validated by peer reviewers from Lab of Clinical-Qualitative Research. Categories to this congress: 1) maternal figure referred to as the axis of orientations on sexuality. This seems to empty the opportunity or the need to discuss these aspects in clinical consultations; 2) interviewees do not cite teenage pregnancy in its new emotional status as present in the prenatal consultation protocol; 3) there is a discourse of the re-signification of relationship with a loving partner by assuming also symbolically the pregnancy by both.ConclusionsProfessionals that the teenagers access in clinical consultations at primary attention are not perceived psychoanalytically as transferential figures for conversations about romantic relationships and/or sexuality. It is opportune to rediscuss the expected and/or desired roles of the clinical team in that studied context from the psychic and cultural symbolic universe.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Background Information on sleep quality and insomnia symptomatology among elite athletes remains poorly systematised in the sports science and medicine literature. The extent to which performance in elite sport represents a risk for chronic insomnia is unknown. Objectives The purpose of this systematic review was to profile the objective and experienced characteristics of sleep among elite athletes, and to consider relationships between elite sport and insomnia symptomatology. Methods Studies relating to sleep involving participants described on a pre-defined continuum of ‘eliteness’ were located through a systematic search of four research databases: SPORTDiscus, PubMed, Science Direct and Google Scholar, up to April 2016. Once extracted, studies were categorised as (1) those mainly describing sleep structure/patterns, (2) those mainly describing sleep quality and insomnia symptomatology and (3) those exploring associations between aspects of elite sport and sleep outcomes. Results The search returned 1676 records. Following screening against set criteria, a total of 37 studies were identified. The quality of evidence reviewed was generally low. Pooled sleep quality data revealed high levels of sleep complaints in elite athletes. Three risk factors for sleep disturbance were broadly identified: (1) training, (2) travel and (3) competition. Conclusion While acknowledging the limited number of high-quality evidence reviewed, athletes show a high overall prevalence of insomnia symptoms characterised by longer sleep latencies, greater sleep fragmentation, non-restorative sleep, and excessive daytime fatigue. These symptoms show marked inter-sport differences. Two underlying mechanisms are implicated in the mediation of sport-related insomnia symptoms: pre-sleep cognitive arousal and sleep restriction.