Health literacy improvement of eight grade students on reproductive health – presentation of workshops „Communication, emotions, sexuality“

Aim: To examine the knowledge about communication, emotions, and sexual health of 8th-grade students. To state the most common issues. Make a comparison by gender. Participants and methods: The sample of participants included 174 students (F=97 (56 %)), representing 81 % of the total population of 8th-grade students in one elementary school in the Primorje-Gorski kotar County (N=214) through three generations. An anonymous survey was conducted before the beginning and at the end of the workshops. The first survey evaluated the students’ initial knowledge of the topics to be covered by the workshops. The second survey evaluated the usefulness of the workshops and served as process analysis. Results: The average age was 14 (13-15) years. Students talk about their problems very often with their mother (45 %), their friends (41 %), their father (19 %), and *Dopisni autor: Izv. prof. dr. sc. Iva Sorta-Bilajac Turina, dr. med. Odjel socijalne medicine, Nastavni zavod za javno zdravstvo Primorsko-goranske županije Katedra za zdravstvenu ekologiju, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci Krešimirova 52a, 51 000 Rijeka e-mail: sorta.iva@gmail.com, iva.sorta-bilajac@zzjzpgz.hr, iva.sorta@medri.uniri.hr 1Odjel socijalne medicine, Nastavni zavod za javno zdravstvo PGŽ-a, Rijeka 2Ginekološka ordinacija Fistonić, Zagreb 3Katedra za medicinsku informatiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka Unaprjeđenje zdravstvene pismenosti učenika osmih razreda o reproduktivnom zdravlju – prikaz radionice „Komunikacija, emocije, spolnost“ Health literacy improvement of eight grade students on reproductive health – presentation of workshops „Communication, emotions, sexuality“ Iva Sorta-Bilajac Turina1*, Ines Lazarević Rukavina1, Sanjin Pugel1, Ivan Fistonić2, Ksenija Baždarić3 Stručni članak/Professional paper