title: Health professionals and the sex education of adolescents.
abstract: This paper is based on research assessing the provision of appropriate and effective sex education to pupils in the early years of their secondary schooling. It aimed to develop an awareness of their views about health professionals working in schools to help with sex education. The pupils had a range of responses to the work: they liked the openness with which medical personnel tackled the subject and welcomed their medical knowledge and the confidentiality they perceived that went along with that. There were also some profoundly negative reactions: gender had a bearing on the pupils' responses, and boys responded more negatively than girls. Differences in pupils' levels of development and sophistication had an impact on how they received the message. This is an edited version of a paper that will appear in a future issue of NTResearch.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, University of Brighton.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Measor
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tiffin
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012736:Sex Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires