The SSASH Survey

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National Reports
State Reports
Peer Reviewed Publications

National Reports

2021

The 7th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health

Power, Kauer, Fisher, Bellamy & Bourne

Supplementary Tables

2018

The 6th National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health

Fisher, Waling, Kerr, Bellamy, Ezer, Mikolajczak, Brown, Carman & Lucke

2013

The 5th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health

Mitchell, Patrick, Heywood, Blackman & Pitts

2008

The 4th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health

Smith, Agius, Mitchell, Barrett & Pitts

2002

The 3rd National Survey of Australian Secondary Students, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health

Smith, Agius, Dyson, Mitchell & Pitts

Supplementary Tables

1997

Secondary Students, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health

Lindsay, Smith & Rosenthal

1992

The 1992 HIV Risk and Sexual Behaviour Survey in Australian Secondary Schools

Dunne, Donald, Lucke, Nilsson & Raphael

1992 – 2018: Trends over time Report

Fisher & Kauer

State Reports

2021 Western Australia

The 7th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health: Western Australia Report

Kauer, Power, Fisher, Bellamy & Bourne

Supplementary Tables

2018 Western Australia

Western Australia: Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2018

Fisher, Kauer, Waling, Bellamy, Ezer, Keer, Brown, & Lucke

2018 Victoria

Victorian Young People and Sexual Health 2018

Kauer & Fisher

Peer reviewed publication

2023: Connor, Fisher, Kauer, Edvardsson, & Spelten. Father-son sex communication in Australian adolescent males. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 28(1), 2282130. doi: 0.1080/02673843.2023.2282130
2023:   Fisher, Kauer, Singleton & Walsh-Buhi. An examination of sexual health information sources, knowledge and behaviours among Australian teens: a latent class analysis. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 20(1), 75-83. doi: 10.1007/s13178-021-00679-3
2022:   McCarthy, Kauer & Fisher. Descriptive norms about condom use predict odds of using a condom during last sexual experience in a large, national survey of adolescents from Australia. Sexual Health, 19(3), 157-163. doi: 10.1071/SH21193
2022:   Falconer, Kauer & Fisher. Sexting and sexual behaviour in Australian adolescents. Sexual Health, 20(1), 57-63. doi: 10.1071/SH22129
2021:   Waling, Fisher, Ezer, Kerr, Bellamy & Lucke. “Please teach students that sex is a healthy part of growing up”: Australian students’ desires for relationships and sexuality education. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 18, 1113-1128. doi: 10.1007/s13178-020-00516-z
2021:   Ezer, Fisher, Jones & Power. Changes in sexuality education teacher training since the release of the Australian curriculum. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s13178-020-00520-3
2020:   Waling, Bellamy, Ezer, Kerr, Lucke & Fisher. ‘It’s kinda bad, honestly’: Australian students’ experiences of relationships and sexuality education. Health Education Research, 35(6), 538-552. doi: 10.1093/her/cyaa032
2020:   Fisher, Kauer, Mikolajczak, Ezer, Kerr, Bellamy, Waling & Lucke. Prevalence rates of sexual behaviors, condom use, and contraception among Australian heterosexual adolescents. The journal of sexual medicine, 17(12), 2313-2321. doi: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2020.08.009
2020:   Ezer, Kerr, Fisher, Waling, Bellamy & Lucke. School-based relationship and sexuality education: what has changed since the release of the Australian Curriculum? Sex Education, 20(6), 642-657. doi: 10.1080/14681811.2020.1720634
2019:   Fisher, Mikolajczak, Ezer, Kerr, Bellamy, Brown, Waling & Lucke. Study Protocol: 6th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Adolescent Sexual Health,2018 [Methods]. Frontiers in Public Health, 7(217). doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00217
2019:   Ezer, Kerr, Fisher, Heywood & Lucke. Australian students’ experiences of sexuality education at school. Sex Education, 19(5), 597-613. doi: 10.1080/14681811.2019.1566896
2016:   Heywood, Pitts, Patrick & Mitchell. Fertility knowledge and intentions to have children in a national study of Australian secondary school students. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40(5), 462-467. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12562
2016:   Heywood, Patrick, Pitts & Mitchell. “Dude, I’m seventeen… It’s okay not to have sex by this age”: Feelings, reasons, pressures, and intentions reported by adolescents who have not had sexual intercourse. The Journal of Sex Research, 53(9), 1207-1214. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2015.1092105
2015:   Patrick, Heywood, Pitts & Mitchell. Demographic and behavioural correlates of six sexting behaviours among Australian secondary school students. Sexual Health, 12(6), 480-487. doi: 10.1071/SH15004
1995:   Donald, Lucke, Dunne & Raphael. Gender differences associated with young people’s emotional reactions to sexual intercourse. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 24, 453-464. doi: 10.1007/BF01537191