Henderson, M. and Elliot, L.
(2026)
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Healthy Respect was the Scottish Government’s National Sexual Health Demonstration Project, developed to improve the sexual health and wellbeing of young people aged 10 to 18. The initiative was implemented across the Lothian region, including Edinburgh, and ran in two phases: Healthy Respect 1 (2001–2004) and Healthy Respect 2 (2005–2008). The second phase, Healthy Respect 2 (HR2), combined school-based sex education with youth-friendly sexual health services, media campaigns, and branded messaging. It also promoted collaborative working between health services, local government, and the voluntary sector.
An extensive evaluation of HR2 was conducted by a team from Edinburgh Napier University, the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, and the Scottish Centre for Social Research. The study aimed to determine whether HR2 improved young people’s sexual health knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, and use of sexual health services, and whether it reduced socioeconomic inequalities in sexual health. A quasi-experimental design was used, with intervention and comparison areas matched for teenage pregnancy and termination rates, and schools matched by levels of social deprivation. A total of 5,283 pupils aged 15–16 years (2,269 in the intervention group and 3,014 in the comparison group) participated in cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
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