Getting it Together in Sexual Health Promotion and Schools

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Getting it Together in Sexual Health Promotion
and Schools

• School Health 2007
• June 9, Vancouver
• Maryanne Doherty, PhD Rosemarie Mangiardi, PhD
  candidate
• University of Alberta, Edmonton
• Barbara Jones, Jeff Dodds Nicholas Robinson
• Public Health Agency, Ottawa

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Sexual Health for the Millennium Declaration draft

• Chapter One Recognize, Promote, Ensure and
  Protect Sexual Rights for All
• Chapter Two Advance Toward Gender Equity
• Chapter Three Condemn, Combat, and Reduce All
  Forms of Sexuality Related Violence
• Chapter Four Provide Universal Access to
  Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Information

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• Chapter Five Ensure that Reproductive Health
  Programs Recognize the Centrality of Sexual
  Health
• Chapter Six Halt and Reserve the Spread of
  HIV/AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted
  Infections (STIs)
• Chapter Seven Identify, Address and Treat Sexual
  Concerns, Dysfunctions and Disorders

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• Chapter Eight Achieve Recognition of Sexual
  Pleasure as a Component of Well-being
• Appendices
• WAS Declaration of Sexual Rights
• The WHO Working Definitions

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Sexual Health Education in Canada

• Provinces and territories are responsible for
  designing education curriculum for schools
• At local levels, curriculum is interpreted and
  delivered by school authorities or boards and
  ultimately teachers

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Curriculum

• Philosophy
• Desirable student outcomes
• Assessment and evaluation strategies
• Recommended student and teacher resources
• Implementation or delivery strategies

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Pan-Canadian Sexual Health Curriculum Analysis

• Identify explicit or implicit mention of
  Behaviour Change Theories/Models
• Identify guiding approaches for teaching and
  learning
• Collect evidence of behaviour change and/or
  maintenance for students

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Behaviour Change Models/Theories

• Social Cognitive
• Transtheoretical
• Theory of Reasoned Action
• Ecological micro, meso, exo, macro
• Information, Motivation and Behavioural Skills
  Model

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Where is Sexual Health Curriculum?

• Levels elementary, middle, secondary
• Documents Program of Studies, Curriculum
  Guides, Implementation Guides
• Components philosophy, aims, rationale, goals,
  vision, values, theoretical framework

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Results

• There is no formal explicit use of the identified
  Behavioural Change Theories/Models in the
  explanatory curriculum components of Canadian
  Sexual Health Curriculum.

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What Approaches?

• Provincially

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Next

• Analyze student learning outcomes
• Identify if Behavioral Change Theories/Models are
  implicitly noted

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Recommendations

• Define Sexual Health Education appropriately
  according to student development and grade level
• Operationalize Sexual Health Education using a
  comprehensive perspective