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The 2024 SSASH Survey

The Secondary Students and Adolescent Sexual Health (SSASH) survey is a national study exploring the sexual health and wellbeing of Australian adolescents.

Are you:

Living in Australia?

14 to 18 years of age?

Whether you've had sex or not, we invite you to take part in an anonymous survey about what you think about sex, sexual health and wellbeing.

The SSASH survey is an online survey. It is anonymous and asks about your knowledge, perceptions and experiences related to sexual health and well-being. Completing the survey will give you an opportunity to provide important information that helps researchers, educators, sexual health doctors and others who seek to improve the sexual health and well-being of young people in Australia.

SSASH is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care

If you would like to speak to us or would like further information about SSASH, please contact us at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University:

Dr Sylvia Kauer, SSASH Research Fellow, s.kauer@latrobe.edu.au

Dr Jennifer Power, SSASH Principal Investigator, jennifer.power@latrobe.edu.au

Complaints

If you have a complaint about any part of this study, please quote the Ethics Reference Number HEC24064 and contact:

Senior Human Ethics Officer, Ethics and Integrity, Research Office, La Trobe University on 03 9479 1443 or humanethics@latrobe.edu.au

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You will be asked to complete an anonymous survey. Generally, it takes about 30 minutes, although it may be longer or shorter depending on your experiences.

We won't ask you to give us any information that could be used to identify you.

Example questions

What you know about sexually transmissible infections (STIs)
Your experiences with relationships and sex (or not)
Your opinions about sex, sex education and consent
If and how you look for information about sex
Your gender, sexuality, the type of school you go to and your wellbeing

Most of the time, you will be asked to select and answer from a list. Some questions will ask you to type in your answer. There may be some questions that you don't know the answer to, or that you don't want to answer. That's fine, there is always an option to select such as 'Prefer not to answer' or 'Not sure'.

If you need to leave before you finish or lose your connection, you can pick up where you left off if you come back to the survey on the same device and browser within 12 hours.

No, but we hope you will.

Being part of this study is voluntary. Please read this information to decide if you would like to participate. We encourage you to discuss your participation with a parent or carer before starting the survey. Information for parents and carers is available at www.ssashsurvey.org.au.

If you experience anxiety, depression or other mental health disorders, especially if you are having a tough time at the moment, please carefully consider if you'd like to complete this survey as there may be a few questions that you could find distressing.

If you decide not to participate, or don't finish the survey, this won't affect your relationship with La Trobe University or any other listed organisation.

The answers you provide in this survey are used to gather information about young people's views about sex, sexual wellbeing and relationships. All the answers from the survey may be used to inform the Australian Government, health professionals and educators to make decisions to help improve sexual health education and services across Australia.

There aren't really any benefits to you, but hopefully you'll feel good about helping other people with similar experiences to you.

We don't ask for any information that can identify you. So there isn't any risk that your answers will be linked to you. We don't judge your opinions or experiences. We've tried to minimise any impact the questions have on you. However, there is a slight risk that some of the questions might make you uncomfortable or cause distress.

If the survey causes you distress, please stop the survey and talk to someone about it if you can.

You can also contact Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or kidshelpline.com.au or Lifeline on 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au. Both these services have wonderful counsellors to help you.

We will collect information about you in ways that will not reveal who you are.

We will store information about you in ways that will not reveal who you are.

We will publish information about the survey without identifying you.

We will keep your information for a minimum of 5 years after the project is completed.

The storage, transfer and destruction of your data will be undertaken in accordance with the Research Data Management Policy (click here).

The availability of any publications that result from this research will be advertised on the ARCSHS website in the future at www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs.

You may also email us to request any available reports.

If you no longer want to complete the questionnaire, simply close the web browser. If you change your mind after clicking on the 'Submit' button, we cannot withdraw your responses because we cannot link who you are with your questionnaire responses.

Click here for a copy of the participant information statement

Contact us:

If you would like to speak to us or would like further information about SSASH, please contact us at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University:

Dr Sylvia Kauer, SSASH Research Fellow, s.kauer@latrobe.edu.au

Dr Jennifer Power, SSASH Principal Investigator, jennifer.power@latrobe.edu.a

Complaints

If you have a complaint about any part of this study, please quote the Ethics Reference Number HEC24064 and contact:

Senior Human Ethics Officer, Ethics and Integrity, Research Office, La Trobe University on 03 9479 1443 or humanethics@latrobe.edu.au.

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The 2024 SSASH Survey

The Secondary Students and Adolescent Sexual Health (SSASH) survey is a national study exploring the sexual health and wellbeing of Australian adolescents.

Are you:

Living in Australia?

14 to 18 years of age?

Whether you've had sex or not, we invite you to take part in an anonymous survey about what you think about sex, sexual health and wellbeing.

SSASH is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care

Complaints

What do I have to do?

Example questions

What does the survey ask about?

Do I have to participate?

No, but we hope you will.

If you decide not to participate, or don't finish the survey, this won't affect your relationship with La Trobe University or any other listed organisation.

Are there any benefits?

There aren't really any benefits to you, but hopefully you'll feel good about helping other people with similar experiences to you.

Are there potential risks?

If the survey causes you distress, please stop the survey and talk to someone about it if you can.

What will happen to the information about me?

How can I hear about the results of SSASH?

What if I change my mind?

Contact us:

Complaints

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