The relationships of school-based sexuality education, sexual knowledge and sexual behaviors—a study of 18,000 Chinese college students

Table 1 Items of SRH quiz from the survey questionnaire^a

Dimension	Items (True or False)
1. Contraceptive Use	1.1 Withdrawal is an effective method of preventing pregnancy.
	1.2 Using condoms could 99.9% protect women from getting pregnant.
	1.3 Only married women could use Intra-Uterine Device (IUD).
2. HIV/AIDS	2.1 A person can get HIV by sharing drinking bottles or utensils with someone who lives with HIV.
2. HIV/AIDS	2.2 All pregnant women infected with HIV will have babies born with HIV.
3. Abortion/Pregnancy	3.1 Painless surgical abortion is safer than a regular surgical abortion^b.
3. Abortion/Pregnancy	3.2 A woman can get pregnant once she has sexual intercourse with a man.
4. Masturbation	4.1 Masturbation will damage one’s health.

^aAll statements were in Chinese (Mandarin) in the original questionnaire
^bIn China, due to commercial advertisement (especially from private clinics/hospitals), painless abortion is portrayed as a safer and convenient approach compared with traditional abortion, while actually the health outcomes of the two approaches are similar. These advertisements make some young people wrongly believe that unplanned pregnancy is not a big problem since there is such a ‘easy’ way to solve it, which then leads to a more careless attitude toward safe sex

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