The Effect of Sexual Health Training Given to Nursing Students on Knowledge and Attitude
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interventional
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Brief Summary
Nurses play an important role in providing sexual health care to individuals. In this study, sexual health education will be implemented in an innovative way by supporting the use of models in the process of sexual counseling of nursing students to patients. The PLISSIT model, which is most frequently used when providing sexual counseling services to patients, will be taught to nursing students and its effectiveness will be determined. In the literature, only one study was found regarding the use of the PLISSIT model in sexual health assessment, conducted with students. The research was planned as pretest-posttest comparative, randomised, with an experimental and a control group, and with repeated measurements, in order to determine the effect of sexual health education given to nursing students with the PLISSIT model on sexual health care knowledge, sexual health care attitudes and myths about sexual health. This research will be carried out between December 2023 and March 2024 with the participation of fourth-year students studying at Marmara University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing. Students who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomly assigned to experimental (n=45) and control (n=45) groups. The data of the research will be obtained using the "Student Information Form", "Knowledge of Sexual Healthcare Scale ", "Attitude to Sexual Healthcare Scale", "Sexual Myths Scale" and "Student Opinion Form on Sexual Health Education". Ethical permission and institutional permission were obtained. The research While routine training will be given to the control group during the training, the experimental group will be given sexual health training including 16 hours of PLISSIT model teaching by the researcher. The data of the research will be obtained before the training, immediately after the training and 3 months after the training, using a data collection form.
Trial Health
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participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for not_applicable
Started Dec 2023
Shorter than P25 for not_applicable
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
April 7, 2023
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
June 1, 2023
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
December 1, 2023
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
March 1, 2024
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
March 1, 2024
CompletedDecember 14, 2023
December 1, 2023
3 months
April 7, 2023
December 7, 2023
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (6)
Knowledge of Sexual Healthcare Scale
The scale was designed to measure the knowledge of nursing students about sexual health care. The scale consists of 31 items. Each item was rated as "yes", "no" and "I don't know". 1 point is given for the correct answer, 0 points for the wrong answer and the answer I don't know. A score between 0-31 can be obtained from the scale.
baseline
Knowledge of Sexual Healthcare Scale
The scale was designed to measure the knowledge of nursing students about sexual health care. The scale consists of 31 items. Each item was rated as "yes", "no" and "I don't know". 1 point is given for the correct answer, 0 points for the wrong answer and the answer I don't know. A score between 0-31 can be obtained from the scale.
week 4
Knowledge of Sexual Healthcare Scale
The scale was designed to measure the knowledge of nursing students about sexual health care. The scale consists of 31 items. Each item was rated as "yes", "no" and "I don't know". 1 point is given for the correct answer, 0 points for the wrong answer and the answer I don't know. A score between 0-31 can be obtained from the scale.
month 3
Attitude to Sexual Healthcare Scale
The scale determines the attitudes of nursing students towards sexual health services. The scale consists of 3 sub-dimensions and a total of 18 questions. Each item on the 5-point Likert scale is rated as 5 = strongly agree, 4 = agree, 3 = undecided, 2 = disagree, and 1 = strongly disagree. The scores that can be obtained from the scale vary between 18 and 90.
baseline
Attitude to Sexual Healthcare Scale
The scale determines the attitudes of nursing students towards sexual health services. The scale consists of 3 sub-dimensions and a total of 18 questions. Each item on the 5-point Likert scale is rated as 5 = strongly agree, 4 = agree, 3 = undecided, 2 = disagree, and 1 = strongly disagree. The scores that can be obtained from the scale vary between 18 and 90.
week 4
Attitude to Sexual Healthcare Scale
The scale determines the attitudes of nursing students towards sexual health services. The scale consists of 3 sub-dimensions and a total of 18 questions. Each item on the 5-point Likert scale is rated as 5 = strongly agree, 4 = agree, 3 = undecided, 2 = disagree, and 1 = strongly disagree. The scores that can be obtained from the scale vary between 18 and 90.
month 3
Secondary Outcomes (5)
Sexual Myths Scale
baseline
Sexual Myths Scale
week 4
Sexual Myths Scale
month 3
Student Opinion Form on Sexual Health Education (part 1)
week 4
Student Opinion Form on Sexual Health Education (part 2)
month 3
Study Arms (2)
PLISSIT Group
EXPERIMENTALNursing students in this group will be given sexual health training. The training will last for 4 weeks. The training is 16 hours in total. During the training, students will learn the PLISSIT model and evaluate cases involving using this model. Questionnaire will be applied before the training, immediately after the training and 3 months after the training.
Control group
NO INTERVENTIONNursing students in this group will not be subjected to any application and will continue their routine nursing lessons. The questionnaire will be administered to the control group before the training given to the experimental group, immediately after the training and 3 months after the training.
Interventions
The 16-hour sexual health training will be given for 4 weeks. Case discussions using the PLISSIT Model will be held in the training content.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Being a senior nursing student,
- Having sufficient Turkish speaking and understanding skills,
- Agreeing to participate in sexuality education on the online platform if necessary,
- Sufficient or unlimited internet access,
- Having any computer, tablet or smart phone,
- Being willing to participate in the research
You may not qualify if:
- Desire to leave the research,
- Incomplete filling of data collection forms,
- Not attending more than 30% of the training given in the study.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Marmara University
Istanbul, 34854, Turkey (Türkiye)
Study Officials
- STUDY DIRECTOR
Nurdan Demirci, Prof.
Marmara Üniversity
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Study director
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
April 7, 2023
First Posted
June 1, 2023
Study Start
December 1, 2023
Primary Completion
March 1, 2024
Study Completion
March 1, 2024
Last Updated
December 14, 2023
Record last verified: 2023-12
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share