Paulette Amelie MAKALA1*
1Universite de dschang, Cameroun.
CaHReF 2018, Yaoundé Congres hall, 08 – 11 January 2019 , PAEI005
Background: Sex education is an opposable answer to the at risk sexual behavior of youths. Several international organizations are encouraging it integration in the school milieu especially in sub Saharan African countries where there is a high prevalence of STDs, HIV/AIDS, risky pregnancies and bad aborting practices conditions.
Objectif: Describe the distribution of this said course and the relationship between students' attention to the course and their sexual behavior from April to June 2017
Methodology: a cross-sectional study was carry out with two components, one descriptive and the other analytical. Adolescents were selected using a random systematic sampling model from a probing step. The subjects were selected on two levels: In the schools, a proportion of students was allocated to each school according to the weight of its total enrollment; In the classrooms, it was done by the same process as the previous one and the students were systematically selected using a sampling step and the sampling frame was the list of registered students enrolled for the current school year.
Results : Out of the 951 students expected, 899 were interviewed 728 (80.97%) had already taken school lessons on sex education. 435 (48.38%) reported having no idea about contraception. 588 (65.40%) were already sexually active, among them 309 that is 52.52% had their first sexual intercourse between an age gab of [10 -14] years The first report, in 48 (8.16%) girls was forced against 31 (5.27%). in boys. 116 (19.72%) adolescents reported having had an STI, 139 (42.50%) of the girls were already pregnant and 61 (44.00%) of the pregnancies were abortion.
Conclusion/Recommandation:The implementation of sex education in school programs appears to be a factor that may limit early sexuality, STIs and unwanted pregnancies in adolescents. Training and assigning teachers for sexual health education in each school would be beneficial to the health of this age group.
Key Words: Sex education, Knowledge, Adolescents, Secondary schools.