NCT06400758

Impact/Interest of a Collective Prevention Intervention in Sexual and Emotional Health

Impact/Interest of a Collective Prevention Intervention in Sexual and Emotional Health Among High School Students in Lower Normandy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 450 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pole Sante Grace de Dieu · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Main objective To measure the effects of a group prevention intervention on the sexual and affective knowledge of high school students in the Basse-Normandie region. Secondary objective Take stock of what is known about the sexual and emotional health of teenagers.

Detailed description

With the average age at first sexual intercourse in France being 17.6 for girls and 17.2 for boys, according to the 2010 health barometer, sexuality education and prevention seem essential at this age, and upstream. An Australian qualitative study of young men aged 18 to 24 revealed that the main obstacles to discussing sexual health in general practice included the possibility of embarrassment and the fact that the subject was private. Most said they would only talk to their doctor about a sexual problem if it was very important or urgent: if not, they would prefer to wait for the doctor to initiate the subject. Sexual health prevention initiatives are therefore essential outside the general practitioner's office, and have been shown to be effective in high schools. This is why the PSLA de la Grâce de Dieu has initiated sexual and emotional health prevention initiatives for students at a high school in Caen. It therefore seemed interesting to assess these students' knowledge of sexual and emotional health before the PSLA's intervention in the amphitheatre with the students, and then after the intervention, in order to find out whether this large-scale prevention action had an impact on these students' knowledge, in the short and medium term.

Conditions

• Public Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	questionary	A questionnaire, based on the main sexual health topics frequently discussed, was given to students by the school management prior to an intervention. The preventive intervention consisted of comprehensive prevention on the emotional and sexual lives of adolescents. It was carried out by health professionals and was based on questions from the students, who were able to leave their questions anonymously in a box in the school infirmary for several months. These questions were collected and used to identify several themes for discussion: emotional life, with notions of affection, love, friendship and the notion of "normality", as well as consent and sexual violence physical and sexual aspects, with reminders of the menstrual cycle, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy and abortion. The same questionnaire was given to students after the intervention, to check whether the prevention intervention had improved their general knowledge.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-14
• Primary completion: 2024-04-30
• Completion: 2024-04-30
• First posted: 2024-05-06
• Last updated: 2025-05-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France