Explaining the Education-Health Gradient in Preventing STIs in Andean Peru: Cognitive Executive Functioning, Awareness and Health Knowledge.

CONCLUSIONS: The relationship between education and STI prevention may be more complex than is often assumed and is mediated by CEF skills, STI awareness and sexual health knowledge. Studies should examine whether STI prevention interventions are more effective if they enhance cognitive skills used to translate information into protective behaviors. PMID: 32701061 [PubMed - in process]
Source: International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health Source Type: research