Effect of Peer Education on Reproductive Health and Safe Sexuality Knowledge

NCT07120919 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2025/177
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 200
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Safe Sexuality and Family Planning Education with Peer Education on Midwifery Students, to create awareness on this issue and to contribute to the literature. The main questions aimed to be answered in the study are as follows: H1: The level of reproductive health knowledge of students receiving peer education is significantly higher than the control group who did not receive education. H2: The safe sexuality knowledge level of students receiving peer education is significantly higher than the control group who did not receive education. H3: Peer education provides a statistically significant increase in students' overall reproductive health and safe sex knowledge levels. Participants will evaluate the training with the scales they will fill in before and after the safe sexuality and family planning training. also, the effect of the training on behaviour will be measured with the questionnaires they will fill in 2 months later.

Conditions

Knowledge Level

Keywords

peer education; reproductive health education; family planning education; impact of peer education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Reproductive Health Scale for Turkish Adolescents

  The scale, which was developed to measure the level of knowledge of young people about reproductive health and consists of 34 items, is 5-point Likert type. The first 16 items are reverse scored. Cronbach's alpha=0.88.

  baseline

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Peer Mentoring Assessment Scale

  3 months later.

Study Arms (2)

PEER EDUCATION

EXPERIMENTAL

Safe sexuality and reproductive health trainings for young people by peer mentors.

Other: Peer Educatıon

BROCHURE

NO INTERVENTION

Providing only a training brochure without any intervention

Interventions

Peer Educatıon OTHER

The peer educators provided training on reproductive health and safe sexuality for young people and completed the intervention part by giving training brochures to the participants.

PEER EDUCATION

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Gender Eligibility Details: It was applied to midwifery students and since men are not accepted to the midwifery department in Turkey, it was applied to women.
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• At least 18 years old,
• Midwifery student,
• Can communicate verbally,
• Volunteer to participate in the research.

You may not qualify if:

• Has a history of psychiatric illness.
• Foreign students.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Medipol University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Istanbul Medipol University

Istanbul, BEYKOZ, 34810, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Model Details: randomised controlled experimental

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 23, 2025
• First Posted: August 13, 2025
• Study Start: March 1, 2025
• Primary Completion: March 19, 2025
• Study Completion: June 30, 2025
• Last Updated: August 22, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)