Learning from What Young People Say...About Sex, Relationships and Health

This guide (developed to sit alongside the Dynamic Contextual Analysis resource) aims to support policy makers, programme planners and practitioners to find out more about young people's ideas, beliefs and feelings about sex, relationships and health. This toolkit sets out how to involve young people and other partners in this process, suggests ways to collect information, analyse it, and present it in a way that the authors feel is likely to influence programmes and policy.

It is divided into seven sections:

• Section One - Background. Who this guide is for, and why it has been written;
• Section Two - Beliefs about health. Professional and lay understandings of health and illness;
• Section Three - Understanding young people and sex. Images of young people. The cultural dimensions of sex. Sexual health cultures among young people;
• Section Four - Working with and involving others. How best to involve other people. Some practical and ethical issues;
• Section Five - Preparing and planning the study. The value of case studies. Finding suitable research questions;
• Section Six - Collecting information. Where, how and from whom information can be gathered;
• Section Seven - Analysing and using findings. Analysing what young people say about sex, relationships and health. Maximising the likelihood that findings will be used.