Sexual Health of Young People in Northern Ireland

This month, ARK will release two reports on sexual health to inform Men’s Health Week 2012: ‘Messed up? - Sexual Lifestyles of 16 year olds in Northern Ireland’ (Research Update 80), by Dirk Schubotz, is based on data from the 2011 Young Life and Times (YLT) Survey, and looks at the attitudes and experiences of young people; while ‘Young Men and Sexual Health’ (Men in Northern Ireland Factsheet 8), by Paula Devine, uses a range of survey data to document the sexual health of young men.  These reports will be available on the Publications Section of the ARK website from Friday 8th June 2012.  Also available on the ARK site, is ‘Loneliness in Northern Ireland Adolescents’ (Research Update 79), by Siobhan Murphy and Mark Shevlin, which uses 2011 YLT data to explore loneliness and mental health among 16 year olds.