Korean J Women Health Nurs.  2010 Mar;16(1):69-77. 10.4069/kjwhn.2010.16.1.69.

Development and Application of Sexual Rights Awareness Scale for Female Adults

• Kim HW
• Im ES
• Kim NS

• KMID: 2308020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2010.16.1.69

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.

Keyword

Sexuality; Reproductive rights; Sex education

MeSH Terms

Adult
Female
Human Rights
Humans
Prejudice
Surveys and Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Reproductive Rights
Sex Education
Sexuality

Reference

1. Berer M. Sexuality, rights and social justice. Reproductive Health Matters. 2004. 12:6–11.

2. Dixon-Mueller R., Germain A., Fredrick B., Bourne K. Towards a sexual ethics of rights and responsibilities. Reproductive Health Matters. 2009. 17:111–119.

3. Edwards W.M., Coleman E. Defining sexual health: a descriptive overview. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2004. 33:189–195.

4. Kim G.S. AMOS 7.0 Analysis structural equation model. 2007. Seoul: Han Na Rae Publishing.

5. Korean Association for Sexology. Seoul declaration. The Journal of the Korean Association for Sexology. 2003. 1:3.

6. Korean Association for Sexology. Sexual rights declaration in Valencia 1997. 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2007. from http://www.sexology.or.kr/.

7. Lee E.M. Sexuality of the disability women - feminist approach. The Journal of Asian Women. 2005. 44:97–130.

8. Petchesky R.P., Judd K. Negotiating reproductive rights: women's perspectives across countries and cultures. Reproductive Health Matters. 1998. 6:186–189.

9. Research Forum of the Women's Health Nursing Curriculum. Women's Health Nursing Care I. 2006. Seoul: Sumoonsa.

10. Rickert V.I., Sanghvi R., Wiemann C.M. Is lack of sexual assertiveness among adolescent and young adult women a cause for concern? Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 2002. 34:178–183.

11. World Association for Sexology. Declaration of sexual rights. 1999. Retrieved March 10, 2007. from http://www.worldsexology.org/about_sexualrights.asp.

12. World Association for Sexual Health. Sexual health for the millenium. A declaration and technical document. 2008. Minneapolis, MN: USA:

13. World Health Organization. Working definition after WHO technical consultation on sexual health. 2002. Retrieved July 15, 2008. from http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/gender/sexualhealth.html.