Effect of human sexuality educational intervention on knowledge and attitude of college students at selected colleges, Amritsar, Punjab

The aim of this study was to examine the knowledge and attitude of college students towards human sexuality and to impart them with appropriate information on human sexuality issues. A quasi experimental research design with randomization and one group pre-test and post-test was used for the study. Simple random sampling with lottery method was used to select 180 students from 3 colleges of Amritsar. 60 students were selected from each college from arts, commerce, and science streams, students are further divided in groups and each group consisted of 10 students. The data were collected using standardised Miller Fisk Sexual Knowledge Questionnaire (r=0.78) and Standardised Hendrick Sexual attitude scale (r=0.83). Human sexuality educational intervention was given to students in 3 educational sessions for 8 weeks. Findings revealed that in pre-test students had average knowledge (52.66%) and neutral attitude (54.88%) on various aspects of human sexuality issues whereas in post-test students had good knowledge (77.45%) and satisfactory attitude (72.61%) on various aspects of human sexuality issues. The paired ‘t‘ test was calculated and found that there was highly significant difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge and attitude scores. Chi-square test shows that there was no significant association between the knowledge and attitude scores with the demographic variables. Karl Pearson‘s coefficient of correlation analysis between knowledge and attitude (r = 0.42) shows significant relation, which reveals that when knowledge level increases, the attitude also will improve.