‘It‘s all scientific to me’: focus group insights into why young people do not apply safe-sex knowledge

McKee, A; Watson, AF; Dore, J

‘It‘s all scientific to me’: focus group insights into why young people do not apply safe-sex knowledge

McKee, A

Watson, AF Dore, J

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Sex Education, 2014, 14 (6), pp. 652 - 665
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	McKee, A https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0577-2061	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Watson, AF	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Dore, J	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:03:41Z
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sex Education, 2014, 14 (6), pp. 652 - 665	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1468-1811	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37390
dc.description.abstract	© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Despite rising levels of safe-sex knowledge in Australia, sexually transmitted infection notifications continue to increase. A culture-centred approach suggests it is useful in attempting to reach a target population first to understand their perspective on the issues. Twenty focus groups were conducted with 89 young people between the ages of 14 and 16 years. Key findings suggest that scientific information does not articulate closely with everyday practice, that young people get the message that sex is bad and they should not be preparing for it and that it is not appropriate to talk about sex. Understanding how young people think about these issues is particularly important because the focus groups also found that young people disengage from sources of information that do not match their own experiences.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Sex Education	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/14681811.2014.917622	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Public Health	en_US
dc.title	‘It‘s all scientific to me’: focus group insights into why young people do not apply safe-sex knowledge	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	6	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Abstract:

© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. Despite rising levels of safe-sex knowledge in Australia, sexually transmitted infection notifications continue to increase. A culture-centred approach suggests it is useful in attempting to reach a target population first to understand their perspective on the issues. Twenty focus groups were conducted with 89 young people between the ages of 14 and 16 years. Key findings suggest that scientific information does not articulate closely with everyday practice, that young people get the message that sex is bad and they should not be preparing for it and that it is not appropriate to talk about sex. Understanding how young people think about these issues is particularly important because the focus groups also found that young people disengage from sources of information that do not match their own experiences.

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