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Exploring the effect of sexual empowerment on sexual decision making in female adolescents
Hsiu-Yueh Hsu1, Yu-Fen Lien, Jiunn-Horng Lou
1Department of Nursing & Long-Term Care Program, Meiho Institute of Technology, Taiwan, ROC.
Background:
Traditional health education may not provide adequate sexual information to female adolescents. Sexual health education for female adolescents broadens opportunities for nurses to help female adolescents adopt appropriate sexual attitudes and make appropriate decisions.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to understand the effect of sexual empowerment on sexual decision making in female adolescents.
Methods:
Twenty-nine female students with steady boyfriends were invited to participate in a sexual empowerment course. Course activities specifically related to sexual empowerment were audio-tape-recorded. Dialogue content was analyzed, and content provided by each study participant was reconfirmed in face-to-face interviews to understand the entire empowerment process in terms of how such may affect responses and to assess the possibility of correctly reinterpreting findings during the member check process. This study also took into consideration degrees of reliability and rigorousness.
Results:
The four themes found to underlie participant perceptions of their sexual empowerment to make sex-related decisions were as follows: (a) proactively seeking sexual knowledge, (b) reexamining relationships with boyfriends, (c) the right to say "no" and to engage in self-protection, and (d) the need to change sexual attitudes and behaviors.
Conclusions And Implications For Practice:
Using the peer group intervention in sexual empowerment may positively impact sexual health decision making in adolescent girls. Nursing professionals may consider peer group intervention as a sexual empowering method in healthcare.
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