Sexual Health Promotion for Adolesnts. Promotion of sexual health for adolescents II phase

The "Health Promotion for Adolescents" Humsex Vlir IUC is one of the projects of the Vlir IUC program, and is born as part of the Humsex project, CIFSEX (Sexuality and Sexuality and Sexual Education Training Center). BACKGROUND 1) Abstract The project "Promotion of Sexual Health for Adolescents" aims to develop and improve sexual education for adolescents in the city of Cuenca, for which it is necessary to start from a knowledge and understanding of the different social and cultural elements that shape the experience of sexuality. 2) Justification Sexuality, like all social behavior, is somehow influenced by the social and cultural elements of the environment. Although there is an undeniable biological basis, sexuality cannot be reduced to this component, since the way and time in which these biological characteristics are expressed will be configured by external forces that mold the behavior of the human being. In the Cuenca society, adolescents are confused in front of two forces, somehow antagonistic, which shape the experience of their sexuality: on the one hand the family, religious and educational factors that contribute to disseminating sexual practices, based on certain norms of behavior and attitudes and, on the other Eroticism, which many times put the teenager in contact with other cultures and other experiences without an adequate orientation or analysis. It is precisely the lack of a correct orientation and sexual education that prevents adolescent from living a healthy and healthy sexuality, based on self -realization, responsibility, freedom and respect for itself and on the other. On the other hand, the lack of research and scientific knowledge about our context implies that sex education programs are built without an objective reference, which allows to respond to the needs and requirements of our social and cultural context, becoming rather mere reproductions or adaptations of programs designed for other contexts and realities. Approach in the research phase, through a mixed approach: quanti-qualitative, it is intended to achieve a better understanding about the experience of adolescents' sexuality, including a study that allows an approach to risk factors and factors for the protection of sexual violence. Similarly, more knowledge is sought on the processes of training and sexual education in the formal and informal areas that adolescents receive. The results of the research carried out will constitute the basis for the construction of the intervention proposal, results that will be published and disseminated in the Cuenca society. We consider that the dissemination of this knowledge constitutes the basis for an awareness of society and the educational community regarding the need for attention, in the field of sexual education.

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