Development and Application of Sexual Rights Awareness Scale for Female Adults

Kim, Hae Won; Im, Eun Sook; Kim, Nam Sun

doi:2010.16.1.69

Korean J Women Health Nurs > Volume 16(1); 2010 > Article

Original Article

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing 2010;16(1):69-77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2010.16.1.69

Development and Application of Sexual Rights Awareness Scale for Female Adults

¹Department of Nursing, Kwandong University, Korea. nskim@kd.ac.kr
²Department of Nursing, Mokpo Science College, Korea.

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study aimed to develop a sexual rights awareness scale for female adults and to further examine the differences after educational sessions for sexual rights awareness with female adults.
METHODS
Convenient sampling was employed to recruit 152 participants. A self administered questionnaire was developed to explore adult females' understanding of sexual rights awareness. In the next phase, education was provided over 3 consecutive sessions to 28 female university students. Factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha were performed in order to test validity and reliability of the educational sessions. The Wilcoxon rank test was used to identify the differences between pretesting of sexual rights awareness knowledge and post testing after educational sessions was provided.
RESULTS
After conducting factor analysis, 5 factors explained 63.3% of the total variance, namely: I) sexuality education, II) prejudice & biasaberration, III) sexual satisfaction, IV) safe & equal sexuality, and V) sexual autonomy. A Cronbach's alpha of 17 items was 0.80. After the education sessions, there was a significant increase in sexual rights awareness.
CONCLUSION
The Sexual rights awareness questionnaire is acceptable as a tool for measuring the level of education in studies. Future research should aim at conducting comparison studies of sexual rights awareness between sexes and cultural differences with larger populations which will further help to develop and to strengthen the rigor with in methodologies.

Key Words: Sexuality; Reproductive rights; Sex education