Programs with Mixed Reviews for Encouraging Use of Condoms:
Sexuality Education Programs

Safer Choices was a sexuality education program set in high schools in San Jose, CA and Houston, TX, designed to encourage abstinence as the safest way to avoid pregnancy or STDs and to encourage condom use among sexually experienced students (Kirby, 2001). Students in the experimental group received lessons and participated in skill-based and interactive activities in five components of the program: school health protection council, curriculum, peer resources and school environment, parent education, and school-community linkages (Kirby, 2001). Control group participants received the schools' regular sexuality education curriculum. Results of the experimental evaluation indicated that students who participated in the experimental group were more likely to use condoms and contraception at last intercourse and were less likely to have sexual intercourse without condoms or many sexual partners without condoms than participants in the control group (Kirby, 2001). No impacts were observed for initiation of intercourse, frequency of sex, or number of sexual partners.


 
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