Purpose: This study was conduced to identify the effects of sexual thealth education guided by dramaturgicl interaction on condom attitudes and inention to use a condom among undergraduate students.
Method: Seventy-one termale and 23 male volunteers...
Purpose: This study was conduced to identify the effects of sexual thealth education guided by dramaturgicl interaction on condom attitudes and inention to use a condom among undergraduate students.
Method: Seventy-one termale and 23 male volunteers at university in D metropolitan city participated in the study with an one group pretest-posttest design, The intervention was implemented for five weeks in October 2003 with a short course including group works to encourage university students' social skills in condom use negotiations and condom purchase by using a dramaturgical interaction model. A confidential questionnaire was administered at basline and post-intervention, and changes in condom attitudes and intention to use a condom were measured.
Result: The self-report of female subjects showed significant positive changes in two out of the five condom attitudes domains, such assailabilit and effectiveness(p<.001) ember-rassment about negotio and use(p<.05), whill male subjects showed no change in each of the condom attitudes domains. No significant difference was found in intention to use a condom after the intervention.
Conclusion: Sexual health education planned to encourage scial skills in condom use by using the dramaturgical interaction model was found to have positive effects on female university students' condom attitudes. A more rigorously designed trial is needed to devolop a comprehensive sexual health promotion programme that targets both cognitive and behavioral changse among sexually active youg adults within community.