TY - JOUR T1 - Exploring the effectiveness of an online sexual health workshop on sexual and relationship beliefs and HIV/STI prevention knowledge among Singaporean youth JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 541 LP - 542 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2021-055297 VL - 98 IS - 7 AU - Xu Ming Yong AU - Sumita Banerjee AU - Jing Lin AU - Thomas Nah AU - Melvin Tan AU - Adrian Tyler AU - Feng Yi Tong AU - Rayner Kay Jin Tan Y1 - 2022/11/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/98/7/541.abstract N2 - In Singapore, sexual education programmes have traditionally placed strong focus on abstinence1; however, abstinence-only sexual education has shown to be ineffective in other settings.2 Here, we report on an online sexual health education workshop targeted to Singapore citizens or permanent residents 18–29 years old who identified as either women, heterosexual men, or gay, bisexual and queer (GBQ) men. Participants were targeted through the community-based organisation, Action for AIDS Singapore’s mailing list, and were able to register their interest for the workshop through an enrolment survey embedded in the invitation email. Participants were asked to provide documented informed consent prior to enrolment in the study, as well as before each survey. The module was conducted over Zoom for 2 hours. Content focused on building awareness and skills associated with recognising one’s sexual power or privilege and negotiating peer pressure in relationships and sexual partnerships, as well as knowledge on HIV and other STIs.Participants were invited to complete pre-workshop and post-workshop surveys to document the following outcomes: sexual communication self-efficacy, or an individual’s ability to communicate with their sexual partners around contraception use, condom negotiation, as well as their sexual history3 … ER -