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The Effects of Sex Education on the Degree of Sex Related Knowledge and Attitudes of Middle-school Boys

The goal of this study was to find out the effect of sex education on the degree of sex related knowledges and attitudes of middle school boys. To achieve this goal nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used to 194 1st grade middle school boys(95 experimental group, 99 control group). The subjects were selected by a convenience sampling method. The study w as carried o니t in a middle school in Kwangju city, Korea, from 27th of May to 12th o f July in 1996. The sex education program w a s developed on the basis of sex education need of schoolboys. The program consisted of pregnancy and delivery, physical differences with the opposite sex, psychological differences and the characteristics with then opposite sex, form of the friendship with the opposite sex, sexual delinquency and its prevention. T h is experimental group met for three 1 -hour sessions(45 mim./hr.). The questionaire was developed by the researchers and it was administered after testing validity and reliability(sex related knowledges scale； Chronbach s alpha=.77，sex related attitudes scale ； Chronbach s alpha< 78). The pc-SAS package program was used to analyze the data along with x-test, t-test, paired t-test, and ANCOVA. The results of this study were as follows； 1. Religion and agony with sexual problem showed significant differences in experimental group and control group in homogeneity test(religion： * 2=4.76, p=0.029，agony with sexual problem： * 2=5.33, p=0.021). 2. The first hypothesis was accepted. The experimental group showed more change in the sex related knowledges than that of control group(t=3.535, p=0.001), and also showed significant differences after control religion and agony with sexual problem (F=16.62, p=0.000). 3. The second hypothesis was accepted. The experimental group showed more change in the sex related attitudes than that of control group(t=6.235, p=0.000), and also showed significant differences after control religion and agony with sexual problem(F=34.82, p=0.000). The study showed that the sex education was effective in increasing sex-related knowledges and have more better sex-related attitudes. Based on the results of this study we can recommend that school-based sex education should be done regularly by school-nurses.