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Added Power and Understanding in Sex Education (A PAUSE): a sex education intervention staffed predominantly by school nurses

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The National Health Service (NHS) Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (Dickson et al., 1997) has suggested that despite the best efforts of education and medicine, school-based sex education programmes that result in behaviour change continue to be rare. Indeed, there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that traditional approaches to sex education are failing to meet the needs of young people. Added Power and Understanding in Sex Education (A PAUSE), reported by Mellanby et al. (1995a), is a programme now staffed predominantly by school nurses, which has shown positive medical and educational benefits that are, we believe, unique in Europe (Mellanby et al., 1995b).

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    Edward Alan Glasper (Professor of Nursing and Academic Head of Child Health Studies) & Lorraine Ireland (Lecturer in Child Health Studies) (Professor of Nursing and Academic Head of Child Health Studies) &  (Lecturer in Child Health Studies)

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Rees, J., Mellanby, A., White, J., Tripp, J. (2000). Added Power and Understanding in Sex Education (A PAUSE): a sex education intervention staffed predominantly by school nurses. In: Glasper, E.A., Ireland, L. (eds) Evidence-based Child Health Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-98239-6_12

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