Effects of an Educational Program to Enhance Health Literacy on Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention Behaviors Among 7th-grade Student Leaders in a High School in Savannakhet Province, LAO PDR
Keywords:
Educational programs, Health literacy, Preventive behaviors, Sexually transmitted infections, High school student leadersAbstract
Sexually transmitted infections among high school students in Laos continue to present a health issue for this group. Therefore, promoting behaviors to prevent them is of great importance. This quasi-experimental research using a two-group pretest–posttest design aimed to study the effects of an educational program to enhance health literacy on sexually transmitted disease prevention behaviors among 7th-grade student leaders in a high school in Savannakhet Province, LAO PDR. The sample group consisted of 126 high school student leaders (Grade 7) divided into an experimental group and a comparison group of 63 people each for a period of 6 weeks. The tools used in the study had two parts. Part 1 was a program to promote health literacy towards sexually transmitted infection prevention behaviors using a teaching model based on the Medagogy theory using PITS teaching principles. Part 2 was the data collection form, which consisted of a behavioral questionnaire for prevention of sexually transmitted infections. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was checked for reliability at .92. Data analysis used descriptive statistics, independent t-test, and paired t-test.
After undergoing the educational program to promote health literacy, the experimental group had a significantly higher mean score (M = 93.11, SD = 18.94) for sexually transmitted infection prevention behaviors than before (M = 65.13, SD = 15.79) receiving the program (p < .001) and their behavior in preventing sexually transmitted infections after the experiment was significantly higher than that of the comparison group (M = 78.32, SD = 16.45) (p < .001).
The study revealed that the educational program can enhance health literacy on sexually transmitted disease prevention behaviors among high school student leaders, and therefore, it could be applied to groups of students in other areas with similar contexts.
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