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Let's Talk: Attitudes and values about sex and relationships among young people and professionals. Phase 2: Development, implementation and evaluation of two interventions

Billings, Jenny R. and Hashem, Ferhana and Macvarish, Jan (2007) Let's Talk: Attitudes and values about sex and relationships among young people and professionals. Phase 2: Development, implementation and evaluation of two interventions. Project report. Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury (KAR id:11765)

Abstract

The Kent Teenage Pregnancy Partnership and the Conseil General de la Somme developed an Interreg action research project in partnership, entitled ‘Let’s Talk’ to explore young people’s attitudes, values and beliefs regarding sex and relationships to go some way towards understanding elevated teenage pregnancy rates in Kent. Parts of Kent and the partner area of the Somme in France share similar problems such as a higher than national average level of teenage birth rates, though there are marked variations within the Primary Care Trusts.

This project consisted of two phases. Phase One was the data collection phase, and was used to inform Phase Two of the project. In Phase One, young people and professionals were invited to explore their attitudes and values towards sex, relationships, sexual health and teenage pregnancy in a number of focus groups. Phase Two involved the development of two interventions that were designed based on the knowledge gained from Phase One.

Two interventions were developed and evaluated following Phase One: the first, a six week course on sex and relationships education (SRE) in a secondary school in West Kent which forms the basis of this report; and the second, an evaluation of two sex and relationships education road-shows in East Kent.

This section of the document reports on the findings from Phase Two of the project and discusses the results of the evaluation of one of the two interventions that were developed with health professionals, school nurses and school teachers.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Project report)
Uncontrolled keywords: Pregnancy, attitudes, sex
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies
Funders: European Commission (https://ror.org/00k4n6c32)
Depositing User: Paula Loader
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2008 14:51 UTC
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2022 10:39 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/11765 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Billings, Jenny R..

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Hashem, Ferhana.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1350
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Macvarish, Jan.

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