The document discusses the problem of teen pregnancy in Native American communities, identifying lack of sexual education, early introduction to sex, sexual violence, and lack of contraceptive use as underlying causes. It proposes interventions like sex education in schools and education around sexual violence to improve short-term outcomes of educating Native American youth about sexual health and long-term outcomes of decreasing teen pregnancy rates and increasing ability to refuse sex. The teen birthrate among Native Americans is over two times the white teen rate, and cultural factors contribute to issues.
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Problem Teen Pregnancy in the Native American community
1. Problem
Teen Pregnancy in the Native American community
Needs
Pregnancy prevention programs
Underlying Causes
Lack of knowledge, Early introduction to sex, Sexual violence,
Not using
contraceptives Sex.
Intervention Activities
Sex education in schools; Sexual violence education
Outcomes
Short term: Educating Native American youth on sexual and
reproductive health.
Long term: Decrease the amount of teen pregnancies among
Native American
youth and increase sexual refusal efficiency.
There is a clear need for pregnancy prevention programs within
the Native
2. American communities, teenage birthrate is over two times
more than white teens
(32.9 vs. 13.2) (Keyon et al, 2019). Native American youth are
introduced to sex at
young ages and believe that is the use of contraception, it is the
female’s
responsibility since she is supposed to be more responsible than
her male
counterpart (Keyon, et al., 2019). Also, in the Native American
community males are
taught to view sex as a competitive sport amongst themselves
which makes the
females have sex out of fear, pressure, or force (Keyon, et al.,
2019).
Reference
Keyon, D. B., McMahon, T. R., Simonson, A., Green-Maximo,
C., Schwab, A., Huff, M.,
Sieving, R., E. (2019). My journey: Development and Practice-
Based Evidence of a
Culturally Attuned Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for
Native Youth.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health [Int J Environ Res
Public Health] 2019 Feb 06; Vol. 16 (3).