Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
J Intellect Disabil Res. 2014 May;58(5):430-41. doi: 10.1111/jir.12040. Epub 2013 Apr 19.
Sexual development plays a vital part in young people's emotional adjustment.
This study compared the sexual understanding of 30 adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) and 30 non-disabled adolescents, along with their reports of where they obtained sexual information, and the nature of their social networks and support.
As expected, the non-disabled young people had superior levels of knowledge. However, an interaction was found between group and gender. The non-disabled young women had a better grasp of sexual matters than men, whereas the opposite was the case for those with ID. The non-disabled young people reported more formal and informal sources of sexual information and described larger social networks than those with ID.
These findings highlight the need to tackle the barriers to sexual knowledge faced by young people with ID, and the need to take account of the broader social context of their lives when doing so. This includes the attitudes to the developing sexuality of young women with ID in particular.
性发育对年轻人的情绪调节起着至关重要的作用。
本研究比较了 30 名轻度智力障碍（ID）青少年和 30 名非智障青少年的性理解，以及他们获取性信息的来源，以及他们的社交网络和支持的性质。
不出所料，非智障青少年的知识水平更高。然而，在组间和性别间发现了一种相互作用。非智障年轻女性对性问题的理解优于男性，而 ID 患者则相反。非智障青少年报告了更多的正式和非正式的性信息来源，并描述了比 ID 患者更大的社交网络。
这些发现强调了需要解决 ID 青少年在性知识方面面临的障碍，并且在这样做时需要考虑到他们生活的更广泛的社会背景。这包括对 ID 年轻女性性发育的态度。
