Effect of a Gender-Based Sexuality Education Program for Nursing Students
Authors:   Form of Public Safety and Culture, Yoon Ji Won 
Published: October 2022

For men and women to achieve healthy growth and harmonious development, it is necessary to cultivate the ability to form an equal social relationship that allows them to coexist while acknowledging the differences between men and women. According to the needs of the times, the need for sexuality education that can sensitively detect various gender issues occurring in daily life and strive to improve unreasonable situations. Therefore, this study was conducted to verify the effect of gender-based sexuality education program on gender sensitivity for nursing students. To this end, a gender-based sexuality education program consisting of eight sessions as part of the ‘Human and Gender’ curriculum was composed.
This program includes an understanding of gender, understanding of gender equality, gender-related social issues, and self-reflection. This program was conducted from September 7 to November 2, 2021, for nursing students at university in D city. It was provided to all students and the effect of this program was investigated for 60 students who agreed to participate in this study and evaluated by an online survey was conducted before and after the program. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, paired t-test, and ANCOVA using SPSS Win 28.0 program.
As a result of the implementation of the gender-based sexuality education program, it was found that there was a significant effect on the improvement of gender sensitivity(t=-4.89, p<.001). For each sub-factor, perception of gender role stereotypes (t=-2.29, p=.025), perception of sexual violence (t=-3.26, p<.001), perception of gender discrimination (t=-5.65, p< .001) showed a significant effect in all. And there was a significant difference in the gender sensitivities(t=-3.56, p<.001) of female and male students before the program's application. In the other hand, before the implementation of the program, the gender sensitivity (t=-3.56, p<.001), the perception of gender role stereotypes (t=-2.44, p=.018), and the perception of sexual violence (t=-1.89, p=.032), and gender discrimination perception (t=-3.80, p<.001) showed statistically significant differences by gender. In order to verify the effect of program application according to gender, pre-gender sensitivity scores were controlled and the difference in gender sensitivity after program application was verified. As a result, there was no significant difference (F=1.89, p=.174). It was confirmed that the developed program was an effective program for improving the gender sensitivity of both male and female nursing students.
This study tried to provide basic data to suggest the direction of a sexuality education that can be applied in nursing education by verifying the effect of the gender-based sexuality education program on improving the gender sensitivity of nursing students. The effect of this program on improving the gender sensitivity of nursing students was confirmed. Considering the characteristics of nursing studies targeting human beings, it is expected that by including it in the curriculum, it will be possible to raise the awareness of gender equality among nursing students and contribute to the spread of a healthy sexual culture.