The study tried to develop a parent-involvement sex education program and find out its effects for more effective sex education methods for high graders of a primary school.
The subjects were recruited from 5 classes of 6th graders in Y Primary School in N city, Kyeonggido province. South Korea. Data collection was done from October 4, 2003 to November 7. The experimental group consisted of 43 students from 3 classes with the help from class teachers and parents´ involvement in the program. The control group consisted of 43 students randomly sampled by computer from the other two classes. For the experimental methods, the experimental group was given a parent-involvement sex education program as well as a student sex education program; the control group only received the student sex education program. The results were analyzed according to frequency, percentage, ??-test, fisher´s exact test and t-test using SAS program.
As a result of the homogeneity test, both the groups proved to be the same (t=-0.29 p=0.77, t=0.49 p=0.62) in preliminary sex-attitude and sex-related communication frequency score. But the two group showed meaningful differences (t=2.52 p=0.01, t=2.04, p=0.04) in preliminary sex-knowledge and sex-related communication quality score.
After the sex education programs, the two groups didn´s show meaningful statistic differences(t=-0.42 p=0.68, t=1.57 p=0.12) in preliminary sex-knowledge and sex-related communication quality score. But the experimental group was statistically more meaningful (t=2.16 p=0.03, t=4.86 p〈0.0001) in the difference of sex attitude and sex-related communication frequency than the control.
The parent-involvement sex education program developed in this study was more effective for improving their sex attitude and for increasing the frequency of their sex-related communication with parents than the existing student program. Therefore, for sex education, it´s necessary to develop and spread various programs where parents can be involved.
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