Consideration of a school curriculum on sex education incorporating information on the measures to be taken against sexual crimes and the provision of emergency contraception for preventing abortions

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26381256
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Niigata University
• Principal Investigator: Kasai Naomi 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (20255243)
• Research Collaborator: INOMATA Shiori ; CUI Xu
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 性教育 / 緊急避妊薬 / 緊急避妊法 / 犯罪被害者 / 保健学習 / 保健指導 / 手引書 / 教育関係者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The National Police Agency began providing emergency contraception (EC) officially as a form of medical assistance to victims of sexual crimes in 2006. In 2011, EC was approved for general use in Japan. School curricula for sex education must provide both information on EC and bioethics related guidance to students. In order to elucidate the most suitable time to learn about EC, we administered a questionnaire about which years of students request learning of EC on high school students. However, conforming to the specifics of sexual education described in governmental guidelines for health and physical education curricula in junior high schools was found to increase the educators’ difficulty in discussing about EC in health studies. Based on these findings, it was concluded that the first important step is to include specific and basic information on EC, when they are necessary, in sex education manuals used by educators and ensure the extensive dissemination of this information.

Free Research Field

健康教育