title: [Sexual information and practice in 16-year-old adolescents].
abstract: We conducted an anonymous poll among 221 girls and 106 boys from the second grade of secondary schools in Somboru, Crvenka and Ruski Krsturu in order to collect data on some aspects of their sexual knowledge and behavior. By the 16th year of life 8.6% of the girls and 36.8% of the boys experienced coitus, while 48% of the girls and 72% of the boys experienced intimate caressing with the opposite sex. It has been assessed that their knowledge on the physiology of the sexual life and contraception is poor and overestimeted, especially among the boys. The sources of information are mostly inadequate which necessitates an organized approach to sexual education.
authors.affiliation: Skolski dispanzer - Odsek za mentalno zdravlje, Medicinski centar Dr Radivoj Simonović, Sombor.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stanković
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Panić
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jerković
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vecerinović
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012736:Sex Education; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D015022:Yugoslavia
vernacular_title: Seksualna informisanost i praksa kod sesnaestogodisnjaka.