Title of article :
Puberty Health Education and Female Students’ Self-efficacy
Author/Authors :
Khatirpasha, Simin Department of Community Health Nursing - School of Nursing and Midwifery - Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran , Farahani-Nia, Marhamat Department of Community Health Nursing - School of Nursing and Midwifery - Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran , Nikpour, Soghra Department of Community Health Nursing - School of Nursing and Midwifery - Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran , Haghani, Hamid Department of Biostatistics - School of Public Health - Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Background: Adolescence is an essential period in every human’s life. The lack of knowledge
on puberty issues may adversely impact an adolescent’s future mental health and self-efficacy.
The present study aimed to determine the effect of puberty health education on the general selfefficacy
of female students.
Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test; post-test and a control group
design. This study was conducted on 100 female students of public schools with the onset of
menstruation in 2018 in Ghaemshahr City, Iran. To prevent data contamination, the control
group was selected from another similar public school. The required data were collected by
Sherer General Self-efficacy Questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS using statistics, including
mean, standard deviation, Chi-squared test, Fisher’s Exact test, one-way Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA), and Paired Samples t-test.
Results: The study groups were matched for demographic variables except for the mother’s age
(P=0.01) and father’s education (P=0.001). Self-efficacy was not low in any of the groups before
and after the training. Mean±SD pre-training self-efficacy scores in the intervention (63.68±9.72)
and control (65.3±8.78) groups were not statistically significant (P=0.69). Comparing the
students’ self-efficacy mean Pre-test-Post-test scores revealed a significant difference in the
intervention group (P=0.017); however, there was no significant change in the control group
(P=0.284) in this respect. Comparing between-group mean self-efficacy changes concerning
before and after the intervention values suggested no significant difference (P=0.294).
Conclusion: Puberty health education was effective in promoting the explored female
students’ self-efficacy. Accordingly, it is recommended to include puberty education in
female students’ courses. In addition, community health nurses are suggested to include this
training in their programs.
Keywords :
Students , Girls , Self-efficacy , Puberty , Health education
Journal title :
Journal of Client-Centered Nursing Care