The Effect of Online Sexual Health Training Given to Nursing Students on Knowledge, Attitude and Self-Efficacy

Marmara University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Health; Randomized Controlled Trial; Nursing Education; Nursing Students

Treatments: Behavioral: sexual health training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06460935

26.10.2023/101

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nurses play an important role in providing sexual health care to individuals. In this study, online sexual health training will be implemented in an innovative way by supporting the use of models in the process of providing sexual counseling to the patients of nursing students. The most commonly used PLISSIT model will be taught to nursing students while providing sexual counseling to patients and its effectiveness will be determined.

Full description

Nurses play an important role in providing sexual health care to individuals. In this study, online sexual health training will be implemented in an innovative way by supporting the use of models in the process of providing sexual counseling to the patients of nursing students. The most commonly used PLISSIT model will be taught to nursing students while providing sexual counseling to patients and its effectiveness will be determined. The research is planned to be pre-test post-test comparative, randomized, with one experiment and one control group, ın order to determine the effect of online sexual health training given to nursing students with the PLISSIT model on the myths about sexuality, sexual health care knowledge, sexual health care attitude and sexual health care self-efficacy. This research will be carried out between November 2023 and December 2023 with the participation of fourth grade students studying at Marmara University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing. Students who is suitable the inclusion criteria will be randomized to the experimental (n=30) and control groups (n=30). The data of the research will be obtained by using "Student Information Form", Sexual Health Care Questionnaire, which includes 3 scales as "Sexual Health Care Knowledge Scale", "Sexual Health Care Attitude Scale", "Sexual Health Care Self-Efficacy Scale" and "Sexual Myths Scale" and "Student Opinion Form on Sexual Health Education". Ethical permission and institutional permission were obtained.During the research, while the control group receives routine training, the experimental group will be given online sexual health training including 20 hours of PLISSIT model teaching by the researcher. The data of the research will be obtained by using the data collection form before the training, after the training.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a senior nursing student,
• Having sufficient Turkish speaking and understanding skills,
• Agreeing to participate in sexuality education on the online platform,
• Sufficient or unlimited internet access,
• Having any computer, tablet or smart phone,
• Being willing to participate in the research

Exclusion criteria

• Desire to leave the research,
• Incomplete filling of data collection forms,
• Not attending the training given in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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57 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental: PLISSIT Group

Experimental group

Description:

Nursing students in this group will be given online sexual health training. The training will last for 5 weeks. The training is 20 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 after the training

Treatment:

Behavioral: sexual health training

No Intervention: Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Nursing 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 after the training.