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1984

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The Effects Of A Teaching Session On Public Health Nurses' Knowledge And Attitudes Toward Adolescent Sexuality, Peggy Robinson Jul 1984

The Effects Of A Teaching Session On Public Health Nurses' Knowledge And Attitudes Toward Adolescent Sexuality, Peggy Robinson

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The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the differences in sexual knowledge and attitudes between public health nurses who participated in a short-term sexuality course and public health nurses who did not participate in a human sexuality course. The Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test (SKAT, Parts I and II) was used as a data collecting tool. The sample was taken from districts of the Mississippi State Board of Health. The experimental group took the SKAT following a four-hour human sexuality course. The control group took the SKAT without any educational exposure. The hypothesis stated that there would be …