Research on the sexual health education of college students in Karamay

Abstract

Objective To understand the status and problems of sexual health education for college students in Karamay. Method s A QR code questionnaire was scanned and submitted by WeChat. The situation of sexual health education for college students was investigated by the informal discussion method. Result s Through the analysis of the results, we found that among the college students surveyed, 78.47% of the students did not think sex was a hard topic to talk about, among whom female students accounted for 75.2% and male students accounted for 81.2 %. In terms of their attitudes towards premarital sex, 29.7% of the respondents were against it, and 46.0% of them did not think it mattered, only 24.3% of the students supported premarital sex. At present, the sexual knowledge and the attitude to sexual contact of college students in Karamay were at the same level as college students in other parts of China. Among the college students surveyed, 74.9% of the students had received sex education in primary, middle, high schools, and university; 26.1% of the students had never received sex education. So, we believed that the main problems of current sexual health education were as follow: firstly, college students did not care (44.3%); secondly, schools did not pay attention to it (27.3%); thirdly, learning content was poor (28.4%). The survey also showed that only 34% of the students knew or knew well whether the induced abortion was harmful to the human body. Even, 3.9% of the medical students completely did not know the harm of induced abortion, 4.5% of nursing students, and 7.5% of non-medical students. The development of sexual health education was not optimistic. The survey found that colleges and universities in Karamay did not offer specialized courses on sexual health and sex education. Even the professional knowledge of the medical students was a little stronger than that of the non-medical students. The understanding on sexually transmitted diseases of the medical students was slightly better than that of the non-medical students, which was influenced by the majors they were studying. Conclusions At present, the long-term effective mechanism of sexual health education has not been formed in the higher education in Karamay, and there is a lack of sexual health education courses for college students. Through this investigation, it is suggested that the education authorities, the health and epidemic prevention departments, medical systems, and communities should work together, gradually standardize adolescent sexual health education with college students as the main part. Key words: College students; Sexual health; Education; Survey