Identifying the main dimensions of challenges in the implementation of adolescent sex education: a mixed research

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1 Associate Professor, Education and Psychology Faculty of University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

2 PhD, Curriculum Development, University of Tabriz.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the main dimensions of the challenges of implementing adolescent sexual education. This research is applied from the point of view of purpose and in terms of strategy and method, it is a combination of exploratory research. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part included researchers in the field of adolescent sexual education, teachers, health educators, counselors, school psychologists and parents of students, and in a quantitative stage of teachers and parents of adolescents. The sample size was 20 people in the qualitative stage and 345 people in the quantitative stage. In the qualitative stage, the sample members were considered by purposive sampling method based on the saturation principle, . The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview in the qualitative part of the interview and a researcher-made questionnaire in the quantitative part. Spearman Brown method and combined method were obtained. To analyze the data in qualitative analysis, Strauss and Corbin open and axial coding methods and quantitative data were analyzed through structural equation analysis . Findings from the qualitative section led to the identification of six main categories of policy barriers, family barriers, invalid information barriers, religious-belief barriers, socio-cultural barriers and educational-organizational barriers in relation to the challenges of adolescent sexual education and presented to the statistical population in the quantitative section in the form of an 18-item scale.

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