Adolescents and sex education : Role of nurses

Abstract

Mental health nurses are untapped potential resourcepersons for community-level activities that can fosterchange in society. Training of school teachers isimportant as often sex education classes are skipped atschool or not discussed. Parents often cannot provideunbiased and scientific information to their childrenregarding appropriate sexual behaviours. Therefore,there is a dire need to work on this area, especially in the Indian context, where we discuss sexual health in anunwelcome and embarrassing way.