The study, conducted by UKM's Children and Youth Psychology specialist Dr Khaidzir Ismail, found all the 887 high-risk female students, except for one, confessing to have had experienced the "pleasures of the flesh".

The three-month High-Risk Female Youth Profile Study, which ended last December, took 20 students with disciplinary problems from each school, ranging from Form One to Form Five, as its respondents.

"It is sad and shocking to find all, except one, of the respondents admitted to having experienced sex. This is a painful finding but it is a reality that we have to accept," Khaidzir told Bernama in his office in Bangi, near here, today.

It is understood the study was a state government's initiative to find an answer to the deterioration of moral values among the female teenagers in the state.

From the findings, the state government aims to formulate a special training module to promote high moral values among the young female generation.

Khaidzir said the study also found female students, aged between 15 and 16, were at a high risk of being involved in various disciplinary problems, like trying to lose their virginity.

"The study also found that the problems committed by these students were due to external pressure like coming from broken homes where their parents had difficulties in coping with life," he said.

Findings of the study also revealed that apart from the sexual experience, most of the respondents took drugs and were involved in pornography, secret societies, vandalism and truancy.

Khaidzir said most of these high-risk female students were poor in their academic achievements, communication skills, and had low self-esteem and self-control as well as problem-solving capabilities.