Clayton Heather B, Brener Nancy D, Barrios Lisa C, Jayne Paula E, Jones Sherry Everett
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Pedagogy Health Promot. 2017 Jul 11;4(2):115-124. doi: 10.1177/2373379917718562.
Sexual health education plays a vital role in preventing adverse consequences of sexual behavior. Data are limited on how professional development (PD) for teachers is associated with teaching sexual health content.
We used data from the 2014 School Health Policies and Practices Study, a cross-sectional survey that included a nationally representative sample of middle and high school health education courses ( = 328; 96.2% of those sampled). We examined whether teacher characteristics and receipt of PD on four sexual health domains (human sexuality and the prevention of pregnancy, HIV, and sexually transmitted diseases) were associated with teaching those four domains and whether PD was associated with teaching specific topics within each domain. In a second set of analyses, we compared the difference in coverage of specific topics by receipt of PD among only the teachers who reported teaching the domain.
The prevalence of teaching sexual health content was higher among courses in which teachers had a degree in health education or were certified to teach health education. A robust relationship between teachers' receipt of PD and the teaching of nearly all sexual health topics as well as an increase in the mean number of topics taught and the time devoted to the domain was demonstrated.
PD has a positive impact on the coverage of sexual health topics among middle and high school courses. These data suggest a need for more PD on sexual health education content to ensure that sexual health topics are taught in the classroom.
性健康教育在预防性行为的不良后果方面发挥着至关重要的作用。关于教师的专业发展（PD）与性健康内容教学之间的关联的数据有限。
我们使用了2014年学校健康政策与实践研究的数据，这是一项横断面调查，其中包括全国代表性的初中和高中健康教育课程样本（n = 328；占抽样样本的96.2%）。我们研究了教师特征以及在四个性健康领域（人类性行为与怀孕、艾滋病毒和性传播疾病的预防）接受专业发展培训是否与这四个领域的教学相关，以及专业发展培训是否与每个领域内特定主题的教学相关。在第二组分析中，我们仅比较了报告教授该领域的教师中，接受专业发展培训与未接受专业发展培训在特定主题覆盖范围上的差异。
在教师拥有健康教育学位或获得健康教育教学认证的课程中，性健康内容的教学普及率更高。研究表明，教师接受专业发展培训与几乎所有性健康主题的教学之间存在密切关系，同时教授的主题平均数量和该领域的教学时间也有所增加。
专业发展培训对初中和高中课程中性健康主题的覆盖范围有积极影响。这些数据表明需要更多关于性健康教育内容的专业发展培训，以确保在课堂上教授性健康主题。
