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Sex Education Among Latino Adolescents, Roxana Tapia

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Adolescents often have little knowledge of the risks of sexual activity or lack sufficient sexual education to understand the consequences of engaging in these activity. As a result, . To aid with the lack of sexual education, I have developed a cultural component to the established sexual education curriculum for the students in health education at Everett Alvarez High School. 22 students took part in this research study. Overall, this research showed to have taught freshman students how much of their knowledge is based around other influences and this presentation improved their knowledge about sex education.