The Attitude and Educational Needs of the first-year Students about sex education in South East Iran

Volume 9 Issue 1 February - April 2019

Research Paper

The Attitude and Educational Needs of the first-year Students about sex education in South East Iran

Zahra Alidadi *, Sakineh Sabzevari**, Batool Pouraboli***, Mansooreh Azzizzadeh Forozy****

*Department of Pediatric Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School of Razi, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

**,**** Department of Medical Surgical, Nursing and Midwifery School of Razi, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

***Department of Pediatric and Neonatal Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Alidadi, Z., Sabzevari, S., Pouraboli, B., Forozy, M. A. (2019). The Attitude and Educational Needs of the First-Year Students About Sex Education in South East Iran, i-manager's Journal on Nursing, 9(1),1-10. https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.9.1.15564

Abstract

One of the most important features of adolescence period is the emergence of sexual desire and the onset of sexual activity, which is expected to be taught as part of the curriculum. The current study aims to evaluate the needs of sex education of adolescents and to determine their attitude towards sex education. It is a descriptive-analytic study that was conducted in Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2014. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The sample size in this study was 400 students. SPSS version 18 was used to analyze the data. The frequency distribution table, the mean and standard deviation of the scores were used to describe the data, and, parametric tests (T, ANOVA) and Pearson correlation coefficient were used for analysis. The results of this study showed that educational needs of about 80% of students in puberty period was about "skin health education”, “nutrition education”, “education of emotional changes", "teaching methods of transmission and prevention of HIV / AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases” and “the training of normal and painful menstruation and its causes and how to control pain”. There was a positive and significant relationship between sex and time of providing information, between age and mean score of opinions and between attitudes and opinions about educational needs. Also, from the participants' point of view, the best time of education was during high school years, and the best method of sex education was at schools by a nurse or midwife, and most of them received their sexual information from friends and books. Students' attitude toward sex education to adolescents was fairly good. They should be trained in cases they do not have a good attitude towards them.