Abstract:

Objective of the present study was to develop a sexual education program for sixth grade students and to test efficacy of the developed program. A semi-experimental design with control group and pre-test and post-test was used in the present study. In the present study, Sexual Health Knowledge and Attitude Inventory developed as a part of current study were used as data collecting tool. Each session of the program consisting of a total of eight sessions was conducted for 80 minutes weekly. Sexual education program of eight sessions was performed in the experimental group whereas no education was given in the control group. The data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), Box-M, ShapiroWilk’s test and discriminant analysis. As a result of the current study it was found that there was statistically significant increase in knowledge level on changes during the adolescence period in the experimental group and statistically significantly positive changes in the friend and romantic relationships, ability to say no and making decision, physical and emotional abuse, and attitudes in social gender issues, and statistically significant decrease in misbelieves about the adolescence period and sexuality

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