Leadership - Monitoring, Disseminating Research
8.1.15 Leadership - Monitoring, Disseminating Research
Health ministries were asked (MOH-1) if they monitored the sexual health, STD and HIV-related behaviours of adolescents. They were also asked if there were regular measurements of youth knowledge, attitudes and skills in these areas.
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| Monitoring Risk Behaviours and Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills for Youth rates in: | Regular use of federal data on behaviours |
Regular collection/use of provincial data on behaviours |
Regular use of federal K, A, data |
Regular collaboration/use of provincial K,A,S, data |
| HIV Infection | 72.72 | |||
| STD | 63.63 | |||
| Teen Pregnancy | 45.45 | |||
| Injection Drug Use | 18.18 | |||
| Steroid Use | 9.09 | |||
| Alcohol/Substance Use | 27.27 |
Health ministries were also asked
(MOH-2) how they communicated such data on HIV/STD/sexual health behaviours to various audiences. The following is a summary of those responses.Figure 54
| Audiences | Methods Used to Communicate |
| Health Decision-Makers | reports, meetings, mailings |
| Public Health Professionals | meetings, news releases, lectures, conferences, reports |
| Education Decision-Makers | meetings, mailings, news releases |
| Education Professionals | mailings, meetings, new releases |
| General Public | occasional news releases, lectures, public information sessions |
Health ministries and public health units were asked two specific questions about disseminating data on youth sexual health behaviours and disseminating research on HIV prevention/sexual health promotion.
About one-third of public health respondents indicated that they are regularly disseminating data or research on the sexual health knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of youth. About 80% of the health ministries and about 60% of the public health units report that they share this data regularly with other agencies, including education. The following tables report on these results:
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| Disseminate Data on Youth Sexual Behaviours | Planned next 2 years |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Don’t Know |
No Response |
| MOH-13c | 8.3 |
33.3 |
33.3 |
16.7 |
8.4 |
0 |
0 |
| PHU-10c | 6.3 |
30.2 |
24.2 |
9 |
13.5 |
1.1 |
15.7 |
A similar question was asked about disseminating research. About half of health ministries and about one-third of public health units regularly disseminate research on HIV prevention or sexual health promotion.
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| Disseminate Research on
HIV Prevention/ Sexual Health Promotion |
Planned |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs. |
Once in last 4-10 yrs. |
Never |
Don’t Know |
No Response |
| MOH-13b | 0 |
50 |
33.3 |
0 |
0 |
16.7 |
0 |
| PHU-10b | 2.8 |
32.7 |
17 |
4.9 |
18.6 |
5.3 |
18.7 |
Both levels of public health authorities were asked if they shared the results of studies on the sexual health behaviours of youth with educators. About one-quarter of health ministries and about 6/10 of the public health units reported that they did regularly.
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| Share Data with Education | Planned within 2 yrs. |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs. |
Once |
Never |
Not Role |
Don’t Know |
No Response |
| MOH-15l | 8.3 |
25 |
8.3 |
25 |
8.3 |
8.3 |
16.7 |
0 |
| PHU-11i | 0 |
59.8 |
23.1 |
3.3 |
10.1 |
0 |
0.4 |
3.3 |
The education respondents were asked if they used such data and research on youth sexual health behaviours and prevention to review their programs. Twenty or 30% did not do so; 45%-30% did so within the past 5 years. The following responses were received from education ministries and school districts.
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| Last Time Student Sexual Health Behaviour Data Reviewed | Never |
Last Year |
Within past 5 years |
Don’t Know |
| MOE-19 | 18.2 |
18.2 |
45.7 |
18.2 |
| SD-21 | 30.5 |
15.2 |
30 |
25.3 |
School principals were asked if they used such data and research in a similar question. Most do not share the results of sexuality studies with their staff on a regular basis.
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| Share results of Sexuality studies with staff | Planned within 2 yrs. |
Regularly |
Once within last 3 yrs. |
Once within last 4-10 yrs. |
Never |
Don’t Know |
| SP-18c | 1.5 |
24.5 |
22.6 |
4.4 |
34.6 |
12.4 |
Education ministries
(MOE-20) were asked how they communicated with school districts about the results of national or provincial/territorial studies of youth sexual health behaviours. They said that they:Figure 60
Send Out Studies to Educators
| Send copies of the report to districts | 36.4 |
| Included a summary in Ministry newsletters | 9.1 |
| Held meetings or workshops | 36.4 |
| Never communicated | 18.1 |