Conocimientos, actitudes y experiencias de estudiantes, padres y docentes sobre métodos anticonceptivos y educación sexual en un colegio femenino
Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Introduction: sex education poses a challenge to parents, teachers and adolescents, who need a comprehensive development of sexuality to empower them to realize their health and well-being. However, barriers to access health services and lack of knowledge about contraception persist in Colombia. Objective: to determine adequate contraception knowledge, and understand students, parents and teachers´ sex education experiences at a public girl´s school in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2020 and 2021. Material and Methods: a mixed-methods study combining descriptive cross-sectional and phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches. The study included ninth, tenth and eleventh grade students from a public school in Bogotá who completed a questionnaire on knowledge and attitudes toward contraception. Focus groups were used in the qualitative study to evaluate students, parents and teachers´ sex education experiences. Results: out of 127 students, 70% had adequate knowledge about contraceptive methods, 92.9% showed attitudes of acceptance and 70% of students talked with their parents about sex education. Focus groups included 15 students, 7 parents and 15 teachers, where: 1) perception of sexuality as a dimension of the human being; 2) perception of sex education; 3) role of the stakeholders; 4) contraceptive methods, and 5) sexual and reproductive rights, were the emerging five categories. Conclusions: as sex education is limited by multiple barriers, the need for engaging parents, school and students is emphasized to enhance family communication which strengthens the educational process.
Institution: Universidad FUCS
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7212230606