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Table 3 Adolescent males as health consumers

From: Male adolescents’ role in pregnancy prevention and unintended pregnancy in rural Victoria: health care Professional’s and educators’ perspectives

 

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Categories

Theme

• Services at High Schools with Mental Health Focus

• Sexuality Education focused on females

Mental Health & Wellbeing

High School Services

Adolescent Males as health Consumers

• Boys are lost after primary school

• No incentive for boys to seek health care

Disengagement

Sex Education

• Religion has an influence on sex education in private schools

Religion

• Focus on STIs not pregnancy

• Males respond more to STIs as they are affected

• STIs are treatable so they (boys) don’t care

Boys & STIs

• Males only seek health care in emergencies

• Males rarely engage with our sexual health service

• We only see them if they are dragged in by their partner

• It’s difficult enough to engage adult males let alone adolescents

Getting males to see a HP

Accessing Health

• There is a need for male sexual health workers

Male health Workers