Effectiveness of Sexual Behaviors Prevention Program among Female Primary Students at Piboonprachasan School

Abstract

            This study was a quasi-experimental research and the objectives was to study the effectiveness of Prevention program of sexual risk behaviors in female students at the upper secondary level at Piboonprachasan school. The research was conducted by studying before and after experiment. Sample of 60 female students were divided into 2 groups; experimental and control group. Each group has 30 female students. The experimental instrument was prevention program and questionnaire developed by a researcher for data collection. Data were collected for 2 times-before and after the experiment. Data were analyzed by using analytical statistics, percentage, mean, standard deviation, dependent-samples t-test and independent-samples t-test.

       The study results had shown as follows:

1. experimental group in after experiment had better mean of knowledge of sex, attitudes towards sex, awareness of risk opportunity for sexual risk behavior, perception of severity of sexual risk behavior and benefit in self-practice to prevent sexual risk behavior, self-confidence and preventive behavior against sexual risk behaviors than before experiment at the statistically significant at level of 0.05.


2. experimental group in after experiment had better mean of knowledge of sex, attitudes towards sex, awareness of risk opportunity for sexual risk behavior, perception of severity of sexual risk behavior and benefit in self-practice to prevent sexual risk behavior, self-confidence and preventive behavior against sexual risk behaviors than control group at the statistically significant at level of 0.05.