Effectiveness of sexual health literacy promotion program among adolescents
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Background: Health literacy is the ability and skill of a person to screen, evaluate, and make decisions in order to change behavior that leads to more appropriate behavior. Especially in adolescent sexual health and pregnancy prevention, appropriate sexual behavior is important to reduce the problem of adolescent pregnancy.
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a sexual health literacy promotion program among adolescents.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study that utilized a two-group pre-post test design was conducted with 64 adolescents selected by simple random sampling. The sample was randomly divided equally into experimental and comparison groups. The research instruments included the sexual health literacy promotion program, health literacy of sexual questionnaire and pregnancy prevention behavior questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistic and repeated measured ANOVA tests.
Results: The results showed that there were significant differences between sexual health literacy mean scores of the pre-test, post-test and follow up in the experimental group (p<.05). The mean scores between the experimental group and comparison group of the sexual health literacy were significantly different (p<.05). The mean scores of the pre-test, post-test and follow up in the experimental group and between the comparison group on adolescent pregnancy prevention behavior were not significantly different (p>.05).
Conclusions: The sexual health literacy promotion program could improve sexual health literacy in order to change behavior leading to appropriate pregnancy prevention behavior.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับวิทยาลัยพยาบาลบรมราชชนนี จังหวัดนนทบุรี และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่น ในวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใด ๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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