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The Effect of Sexual Health Course on Students’ Level of Belief in Sexual Myths

Dilek Sarpkaya Güder, Serap Tekbaş

2021International Journal of Sexual Health11 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to understand the link between exposure to a sexual health course and nursing students'. Method: = 191; 83 experimental and 59 controls) were enrolled in a semi-experimental pre-and post-test study. Results: It was found that the students who took the sexual health course had a lower belief in sexual myths than the students who did not take the course. While the sexual myth scale total average before the course was 63.65 ± 19.36, the post-course mean score was 48.64 ± 16.6. Conclusions: With sexual health education, individuals' false beliefs and risks regarding sexual health are reduced.

Topics & Concepts

Reproductive healthMythologyPsychologyTest (biology)Clinical psychologyMedicineDevelopmental psychologyEnvironmental healthPopulationBiologyPaleontologyTheologyPhilosophySexual function and dysfunction studiesAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthHealth and Wellbeing Research