Curriculum standards and teaching materials in compulsory education in China from the perspective of comprehensive sexuality education / 中国学校卫生

Abstract@#Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is a instruction method based on curriculum, which explores the cognitive, emotional, physical and social significance of sexuality. Based on the analysis model of teaching materials and Interpretative Structural Model (ISM), this paper analyzes and evaluates the curriculum standards and teaching materials of compulsory education in China from the perspective of CSE. It reveals that the contents of CSE mainly appear in the 19 curriculum standards as well as in the teaching objectives, contents, practice activities and compiling elements of teaching materials. Based on CSE, the reliability of teaching objectives and content, the comprehensiveness of teaching content, the feasibility and effectiveness of teaching practice of curriculum standards and textbooks need to be further strengthened and improved.

Status quo and curriculum intervention of sexual psychological health during puberty in middle school / 中国学校卫生

Objective@#To explore the influence of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) course based on International Technical Guidance onthe sexual psychological health of middle school students during puberty, and to provide a reference for mental health promotion.@*Methods@#This study used Adolescent Sexual Psychological Health Questionnaire as measuring tool and self-made textbook on sexuality education entitled Love and Life: Junior High School Students’ Sexual Health Education Textbook as intervention. Measurements were set before and after the first semester together with the end of the second semester, respectively were pretest, intermediate test and posttest.@*Results@#The sexual psychological health of middle school students was in the medium level, and girls(3.51±0.40) were generally better than boys(3.44±0.37)(t=3.62, P<0.05). According to one-way analysis of variance, the main effect of three dimensions of sexual health-sexual cognition(3.31±0.81, 3.68±0.80, 4.37±0.61), sexual values(3.43±0.51, 3.55±0.54, 3.85±0.58) and sexual adaptation(3.63±0.41, 3.85±0.49, 4.09±0.58) and the total score(3.51±0.39, 3.74±0.46, 4.10±0.47) before, during and after the acceptance of comprehensive sexuality education was significant(F=252.18, 281.68, 113.54, 114.60, P<0.05).@*Conclusion@#Comprehensive sexuality education course has a significant effect on improving sexual psychological health among junior high school students.