EVIDENCE AND RESEARCH
This page provides recent sexual health evidence which NHS Health Scotland have produced and links to sources of evidence, research and data.
Recent research
Read about women's views and attitudes towards longer-lasting contraception in this research study commissioned by NHS Health Scotland Awareness and knowledge of long acting reversible contraception: what women and professionals need (2009).
Read this report on Sex and Relationship Education in Scottish Secondary Schools (2008) was produced as a collaboration between NHS Health Scotland, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Leicester.
Two briefing papers designed to bring together evidence on effective and promising practice, highlighting the views of young people from black and minority ethnic communities (2008) and young people with learning disabilities (2008).
Sexual health and relationships: A Review of Resources for people with learning disabilities (2008) is designed to provide professionals with information on resources to help young people with learning disabilities acquire accurate information, develop skills and positive values to guide their decision-making, relationships and behaviour.
Addressing sexual health in the workplace is one of the Respect and Responsibility outcomes. Read this research study on employees and employers attitudes towards Promoting positive sexual health messages in the workplace.
To view more Health Scotland publications go to our Resources page.
Healthy Respect
Healthy Respect was set up as a test-bed for innovation to identify how to meet some of the sexual health challenges for young people, and disseminate the learning across Scotland. It consisted of two phases, Healthy Respect 1(HR1) from 2001-2004 and HR2 from 2005 to 2008.
The evaluation of HR2 is currently underway. The interim report on the Evaluation of Healthy Respect Phase Two outines the development and delivery of the project and provides early findings from its evaluation.
A final report on the evaluation of Healthy Respect Phase Two will be published in early 2010.
What does the evidence support? sets out the research behind Phase Two of the Healthy Respect Demonstration Project, considering the key findings from academic research and from the evaluation of HR1 relating to teenage pregnancy and STIs.
Healthy Respect Independent Evaluation March 2005 (Executive Summary) assesses the effectiveness of HR1 from 2001-2004.
Content last reviewed: 1 June 2009
Next review due: 1 Dec 2009