The research also found that students who were born outside of the United States and students whose mothers had lived only part of their lives or never lived in the U.S.
Many described sexuality education that was awkward, incomplete, or provided little information about sexual consent or sexual assault. These factors include unwanted sexual contact before college (for women) adverse child experiences such as physical abuse ‘hooking up’ in high school or initiation of sex and alcohol or drug use before age 18.Įthnographic interviews highlighted the heterogeneity of students’ sex education experiences. The authors found that multiple social and personal factors experienced prior to college were associated with students’ experience of penetrative sexual assault (vaginal, oral, or anal) during college. The findings draw on a confidential survey of 1671 students from Columbia University and Barnard College conducted in the spring of 2016 and on in-depth interviews with 151 undergraduate students conducted from September 2015 to January 2017. “It’s time for a life-course approach to sexual assault prevention, which means teaching young people - before they get to college - about healthy and unhealthy sexual relationships, how to say no to unwanted sex, and how to say yes to wanted sexual relationships.” “We need to start sexuality education earlier,” said John Santelli, MD, the article’s lead author, a pediatrician and professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Students who received abstinence-only instruction did not show significantly reduced experiences of campus sexual assault. Students who received refusal skills training also received other forms of sexual education, including instruction about methods of birth control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. The research found that students who received formal education about how to say no to sex (refusal skills training) before age 18 were less likely to experience penetrative sexual assault in college. The latest publication from Columbia University’s Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) project suggests that sexuality education during high school may have a lasting and protective effect for adolescents.
Students who receive sexuality education, including refusal skills training, before college matriculation are at lower risk of experiencing sexual assault during college, according to new research published today in PLOS ONE.
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