Effects of a CD-ROM educational program on sexual knowledge and attitude.
This study evaluated a CD-ROM educational program in sexual violence prevention for middle school students. A randomized control-group pretest-posttest design was used. Seventy-nine students were randomly assigned to either an experimental (n = 39) or control (n = 40) group. The experimental group watched the CD-ROM, whereas the control group did not. Both groups were pretested for the levels of knowledge and attitude about sexual violence prevention prior to intervention. A CD-ROM titled Educational Program for the Prevention of Sexual Violence was used for the intervention. The instrument contains 32 true-false items that measure knowledge level and 20 items comprising a four-point Likert-type scale that measure the attitude to sexual violence. There was a significant increase in knowledge in the experimental group, while no differences on attitude were found between the experimental and control groups. A CD-ROM-based program can be effective for delivering instructions on sexual violence prevention in the classroom.
Yom
Young-Hee
YH
Department of Nursing, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. yhyom@cau.ac.kr
Eun
Lee Kyu
LK
D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016251:CD-ROM; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008297:Male; D011902:Rape / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012424:Rural Population; D012572:School Health Services; D012736:Sex Education / Q000379:methods*; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric