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Socio-economic Factors Influences Teen Sex Lives Than School: Study
February 08, 2008 at 6:35 PM
General Health News
A new study has shown that schools have less influence than socio-economic factors such as deprived neighbourhoods and peers in shaping the sexual behaviour of teenagers.
The study of almost 5000 pupils from 24 schools across Scotland, whose average age is 16, found that both individual and community-wide socio-economic and cultural factors are more influential in teenagers' decisions to engage in sexual activity than teacher-pupil relationships or classroom discipline.
A team of researchers from Glasgow and Edinburgh analysed data on nearly 5000 pupils from 24 different Scottish Schools. They found that overall 42 pct of girls and 33 pct of boys reported experience of sexual intercourse, but the rates between schools ranged widely, from 23 pct to 61 pct.
Schools have the potential to influence their pupils behaviour through the schools social organisation and culture, as well as through the formal curriculum, said study lead author Dr Marion Henderson from the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow.
The idea of Health Promoting Schools whereby schools move beyond their formal health education curricula to examine how their policies and practices throughout the school affect the health and well-being of pupils is now encouraged by government, she added.
However, the study found that how well a school is run appeared to have little influence at all on sexual behaviour. Once the researchers had accounted for all the known predictors of sexual activity (parental monitoring, individual socio-economic factors, the age of pupils, their levels of personal spending money or the proportion of their friends perceived to be having sex) the variance between schools dropped sharply.
The study of almost 5000 pupils from 24 schools across Scotland, whose average age is 16, found that both individual and community-wide socio-economic and cultural factors are more influential in teenagers' decisions to engage in sexual activity than teacher-pupil relationships or classroom discipline.
A team of researchers from Glasgow and Edinburgh analysed data on nearly 5000 pupils from 24 different Scottish Schools. They found that overall 42 pct of girls and 33 pct of boys reported experience of sexual intercourse, but the rates between schools ranged widely, from 23 pct to 61 pct.
Schools have the potential to influence their pupils behaviour through the schools social organisation and culture, as well as through the formal curriculum, said study lead author Dr Marion Henderson from the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow.
The idea of Health Promoting Schools whereby schools move beyond their formal health education curricula to examine how their policies and practices throughout the school affect the health and well-being of pupils is now encouraged by government, she added.
However, the study found that how well a school is run appeared to have little influence at all on sexual behaviour. Once the researchers had accounted for all the known predictors of sexual activity (parental monitoring, individual socio-economic factors, the age of pupils, their levels of personal spending money or the proportion of their friends perceived to be having sex) the variance between schools dropped sharply.
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