Relationship between Knowledge, Attitudes, and Self-awareness on Safe Sex of Nursing Students
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This descriptive correlation research aims to study the knowledge and attitudes towards self-awareness of safe sex among nursing students. The sample consisted of female nursing students from the bachelor’s degree program in nursing science in a nursing educational institute in the Western part of Thailand during the 2019 academic year. A simple random technique was used to recruit 212 female nursing students from each class. To collect data, a questionnaire included 4 parts: 1) personal data, 2) Knowledge of safe sex, 3) safe sex attitudes and 4) safe sex self-awareness, was used. The questionnaire underwent testing for content validity and reliability. The reliability is reported by KR-20 as.70, and the questionnaires’ reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient is .84 and .81, respectively from the data which have been analyzed by descriptive statistics method and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient.
The results indicated that the subjects’ knowledge about safe sex was at a moderate level (M = 14.09, SD = 1.87). There is a low positive correlation between safe sex knowledge and safe sex awareness, and this correlation is statistically significant at the .01 level (r = .28). Regarding attitudes about safe sex and awareness of safe sex, the samples demonstrate a high level of attitudes (M = 3.94, SD = 1.105) and awareness (M = 4.20, SD = 1.04). Additionally, there is a high positive correlation (r = .68) between safe sex attitudes and safe sex awareness, which is statistically significant at the 0.01 level.
The finding suggests that educational institutions play an important role in promoting knowledge and attitudes about safe sex among bachelor’s degree students to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
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