Authors Clare Tanton, Kyle Jones, Wendy Macdowall, Soazig Clifton, Kirstin Mitchell, Jessica Datta, Ruth Lewis, Nigel Field, Pam Sonnenberg, Amy Stevens, Kaye Wellings, Anne Johnson, Catherine Mercer, University College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and NatCen Social Research
Published by BMJ Open, March 2015
SUMMARY
Sex and relationships education in schools is a source of controversy, with a third of English schools judged as needing improvement in this area. A team of researchers wanted to find out whether young people have changed the ways they find out about sex. They compared data from a survey of 3,869 16- to 24-year-olds conducted between 2010 and 2012 with information from previous surveys carried out in 1990-91 and 1999-2001. They also analysed data from 3,408 participants in the most recent survey to uncover links between where young people get most of their information, and their sexual behaviour - such as at what age they first had sex.
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