A Prospective and Randomized Controlled Evaluation of Sexual Health Education Program of Gynecological Cancer Women

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Received the GS-SHEP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05771532

105-2629-S-182-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Gender-Sensitive -Sexual Health Education Program (GS-SHEP) in enhancing the sexual health of patients with gynecologic cancer.

Full description

This study recruited patients with cervical cancer from the gynecological wards of a large-scale medical center in northern Taiwan. A total of 63 participants were divided into two groups. The control group (n=30) received routine sexual health teaching (a 10-15-minute routine individual sexual health education and a sexual health pamphlet without a gender-sensitive and theoretically based design. The experimental group (n=33) received the GS-SHEP (a 10-15-minute individual sexual health education and a sexual health pamphlet). GS-SHEP effectiveness was examined using a self-report instrument to measure background information and three dependent variables: "sexual knowledge," "sexual attitudes," "sexual self-efficacy", and "sexual activity". Data were collected at baseline, one week, six weeks, four months, and seven months after intervention and analyzed using the statistical software SPSS 20.0.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Women were recruited to participant if they were just been diagnosis with cervical cancertment within the previous 1 weeks.
2. 20 to 80 years old.
3. Able to read, write, and speak Chinese.
4. In order to comply with the spirit of gender sensitivity in this study, participants do not exclude whether they have a partner or different sexual orientation.

Exclusion criteria

1. Presence of other malignant disease.
2. Impaired mental function.
3. sexual dysfunction (pre-existing sexual dysfunction may confound the impact of cancer treatment on sexual activity).
4. History of female genital organ surgery before diagnosis of gynecological cancer, or a dependent functional status.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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63 participants in 2 patient groups

The experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group (n=33) received a gender-sensitive and transtheoretical model (TTM)-based sexual health education program, which includes a 10-15-minute individual sexual health education and a sexual health pamphlet. The TTM-based sexual health education program was performed by a nurse educator with more than one year of clinical experience in gynecological nursing, who received formal training through enrollment in a course entitled " a gender-sensitive and transtheoretical model (TTM)-based sexual health education training program."

Treatment:

Behavioral: Received the GS-SHEP

The control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group (n=30) received a 10-15-minute routine sexual health education and a sexual health pamphlet without a gender-sensitive and theoretically based design. Both were provided by nursing staff with no formal training in " a gender-sensitive and transtheoretical model (TTM)-based sexual health education training program."