PMID- 31122550
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20201002
LR  - 20201002
IS  - 1879-1972 (Electronic)
IS  - 1054-139X (Linking)
VI  - 64
IP  - 6S
DP  - 2019 Jun
TI  - Adolescent Sexual Risk Behavior in Hong Kong: Prevalence, Protective Factors, and 
      Sex Education Programs.
PG  - S52-S58
LID - S1054-139X(18)30833-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.12.007 [doi]
AB  - Although Hong Kong is considered to be a relatively westernized Chinese society, 
      sex remains to be a subject that is rarely discussed openly. This article 
      provided a brief overview on the prevalence of sexual behaviors and attitudes 
      among adolescents in Hong Kong. Compared with the West, Hong Kong adolescents are 
      less sexually active; however, increasing rates and more liberal sexual attitudes 
      have been reported over the decades. These worrying trends have caused great 
      concern and begged the question of occurrences and the effectiveness of sex 
      education programs. Endeavor has been made to identify protective factors for 
      reducing adolescent risky sexual behaviors and promoting sexual health from a 
      strength-based perspective, such as the positive youth development (PYD) 
      approach. However, to date, there is little synthesis of empirical evidence in 
      the literature on the relations between PYD and adolescent sexual behaviors. We 
      attempted to fill in this gap by outlining empirical evidence on the protective 
      roles of PYD attributes in youth sexual outcomes. We reviewed local sex education 
      programs and outlined several observations regarding foci, implementation, and 
      evaluation. To conclude, we provided suggestions to inform practice in the future 
      development and implementation of sex education programs to promote sexual health 
      among youths.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2018 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by 
      Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Leung, Hildie
AU  - Leung H
AD  - Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong 
      Kong, PR China. Electronic address: hildie.leung@polyu.edu.hk.
FAU - Lin, Li
AU  - Lin L
AD  - Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong 
      Kong, PR China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - J Adolesc Health
JT  - The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for 
      Adolescent Medicine
JID - 9102136
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adolescent Behavior/*psychology
MH  - Adolescent Development
MH  - Attitude
MH  - *Health Promotion
MH  - Hong Kong/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - *Protective Factors
MH  - *Risk-Taking
MH  - *Sex Education
MH  - *Sexual Behavior
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Chinese adolescents
OT  - Positive youth development
OT  - Risky sexual behavior
OT  - Sex education
OT  - Sexual health
EDAT- 2019/05/28 06:00
MHDA- 2020/10/03 06:00
CRDT- 2019/05/25 06:00
PHST- 2018/06/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/12/03 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/12/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/05/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/05/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/10/03 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1054-139X(18)30833-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.12.007 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Adolesc Health. 2019 Jun;64(6S):S52-S58. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.12.007.