| The Effect of Sex Education Program on Sex-related Knowledge and Attitude of the Pers야is with Chronic Mental Disorder |
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Kyung Won Sim1, Chung Sook Lee2 |
1Mental Health Nurse, National Naju Hospital
2Nursig College, Chonnam National University, Chonnam National University Research Institute of Nursing Science |
| 성교육 프로그램이 만성정신질환자의성 관련 지식과 태도에 미치는 효과 |
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심경원1, 이정숙2 |
1국립나주병원 정신보건간호사
2전남대 학교간호대 학 교수. 전남대 학교간호과학연구소 |
Correspondence:
Kyung Won Sim, Tel: 82-61-330-4231,
Email: simgw21@hanmail.net
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Received: 17 August 2005 • Accepted: 15 September 2005 |
| Abstract |
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The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of sex education programs on sex-related knowledge and attitude in the persons with chronic mental disorder. This study was a quasi-experimental study using nonequivalent control group pre-post test design. The subjects were 74 patients(39 experimental group, 35 control group) with chronic mental disorder in a rehabilitation ward and a closed ward in K hospital located in N city. The data were collected from Nov. 17 to Dec. 10，2003. Research instrument were 25 items measuring sexrelated knowledge and attitude 25 items used by Kwak Noh-jin(2001). This sex education program was conducted in a hospital education room for 4 weeks( 12 hours) by researcher and four mental health nurses. The data were analysed by percentage, mean score, standard deviation, x 2 -test, and t-test using SPSS 11.0 program. The results were as follows. 1. The experimental group received the sex education program showed a significantly higher sex-related knowledge score than the control group (t=9.41, p C001). 2. The experimental group received the sex education program showed a significantly higher sex-related attitudes score than the control group (t=7.14, p C001). This study concluded that the sex education program was changed effectively the sex-related knowledge and attitude for the persons with chronic mental disorder. Although the chronic mentally ill are in difficulty in the development of social intimacy due to the limitation of social ability, the continuous and further performance of sex education program will improve their sex-related knowledge and allow them to have a desirable attitudes.
Thus, for them to have correct knowledge and desirable attitudes for sex, a community mental health center should incorporate a sex education program into psychosocial rehabilitation programs and conduct systematic and continuous sex education programs to improve social function of the persons with chronic mental disorder. |
| Key Words:
Sex education program; Sex-related knowledge and attitude; Persons with chronic mental disorder |
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