Study Reveals Need for Comprehensive Sex Education in Ghanaian Schools to Address High Prevalence of Sexual Behavior Among Teenagers

 Exhaustive sex schooling is a significant apparatus that empowers youths to settle on informed decisions concerning sex and sexual way of behaving and gives them the instruments expected to grow up into physically sound grown-ups.

 Sex training is non-existent in most Ghanaian schools and homes. In spite of the quietness that exists concerning sex and conceptive medical problems, a lot of teenagers are taking part in sexual ways of behaving, wondering for no specific reason and the need to adjust to peer standards. 

A school-based cross-sectional review was directed in April 2015 to recognize the impact sex training has on the sexual way of behaving of senior secondary school understudies in the West African Senior Secondary School in the More prominent Accra Locale. It was additionally to recognize the principal sex schooling programs accessible to understudies.

 A sum of 449 young people between the ages of 13-20 years in senior secondary school was chosen. A self-regulated survey was utilized to get information on sexual instruction sources and the sexual way of behaving of the understudies. Quantitative information was gotten on their socio-segment status, family structures, parental correspondence and wellspring of sex training, history of close connections, and sexual way of behaving as well as sexual conceptive wellbeing programs in their schools.

 The information was handled and examined utilizing Microsoft Succeed 2013 and STATA programming variant 12. The middle age at sexual presentation was 13.0 years. The predominance of sexual movement was 27% of the all-out populace, of which 14% of them were as of late captivated by sexual activity.

 Critical affiliation was not noticed for parental conversation, sex training, and sexual way of behaving. Be that as it may, peer pressure was seen to increment the sexual way of behaving among youths. Virtual entertainment use was emphatically connected with going into close connections but not a sexual way of behaving. The principal wellsprings of data on sex were instructors and the media.

 Sexual training programs in the school were not many and didn't address the issue of understudies in the school. 93% of understudies hence called for more sex training projects to be carried out in the school to empower them to address the issues of their sexual and regenerative well-being. Fitting intercessions are expected to check the high extent of the sexual way of behaving among the understudies. These discoveries propose that sex training both in school and at home is important to assist teenagers with pursuing informed decisions concerning sex and conceptive wellbeing. Watchwords: Young people, Sex instruction, Sexual way of behaving, Parental correspondence.