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Item Perspectives of stakeholders on the introduction of sex education in Maldivian schools(Faculty of Health Sciences, 2015-11-01) Ifa, MariyamSexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancy among adolescents are important public health issues that can be tackled through the implementation of effective education strategies. This research study examined the views of students, parents and expertise on the introduction of sex education in Maldivian Schools. An exploratory research design was used and both qualitative and quantitative methods was used to collect data. 110 students whose ages ranged from 15 to 19 years from 4 schools of Male’ was given the self-administered questionnaire and other expertise were interviewed to find their attitudes towards sex education inclusion in schools. The findings of this study indicated that almost all the study participants had favorable attitude towards the importance of school sex education except for religious scholars. Students indicated that their preferable place for sex education provision is school compared to other places with a percentage of 54.5. It was found that gender and preferable place for sex education and source had a significant association with a P-value < 0.05. Parents and teachers agreed that the content of school sex education should include abstinence-only and it must be based on the principles of Islam only. Moreover, parents and teachers also said that the age for introduction time for school sex education should be between 12 and 15 years of age. Teacher teaching experiences and field of studies have a supportive idea about the starting of school sex education. Therefore, it is evident that there is support for sex education and future research is important for giving a more brief idea about perspectives from a bigger sample group.Item Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards consumption of fast food among fhs students of Maldives National University.(Faculty of Health Sciences, 2016-06-01) Adam, AminathEating healthy foods and living in a healthy life is one of the essential requirements for having long life expectancy. However, people are consuming fast foods with lots of calories but with little nutritional value that leads to chronic diseases like (NCDs) which was the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Maldives. This cross sectional descriptive study was carried out to identify knowledge, attitude and practices towards consumption of fast food among health background students of Maldives National University in May 2016. Among 100 participants who participated in the study, it has found that majority of participants were aware about the risks causes due to consumption of fast food. 45% of the participants have strongly agreed that fast food can causes NCDs and other diseases. Even though, participants have knowledge about the risk of consuming fast food, there were about 28% of participants who consume fast food every day while, 40% of the participants consume fast food weekly. Consumption of fast food among participants increases due to their lifestyle. As there 54% of the participants who agree that they prefer fast food when they want to become socialize with friends and family. In addition, 59% of the participants have strongly believed taste of the fast food makes to consume more fast food. Therefore, it can be said that the students have knowledge about risk factors of fast food consumption however; the attitudes and practices of students should be changed. Hence, the community should work on the policy of providing healthy meals conveniently at lower cost. Also the university should work on creating awareness among students to minimize intake of fast food and increase level of healthy foods to be consumed