فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Today, one of the biggest concerns of parents is protecting their children andproperly educating them about sex. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of educationalintervention on parental skills in sex education on their children in elementary schools in the northwestof Tehran‑Iran in 2019 based on literature.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This quasi‑experimental study was conducted on 125 parents ofelementary schoolchildren in the northwestern of Tehran. The data were collected by valid andreliable questionnaire. Before the intervention, two intervention and control groups filled up the pretestquestionnaire; the data were collected by valid and reliable questionnaire. Before the intervention,two intervention and control groups filled the pretest questionnaire, and then the parents participatedin the educational program based on dramatic literature. Two months later, the same questionnairewas completed by the control and intervention groups. Finally, the data were analyzed by regressionand one‑way ANOVA test.RESULTS: The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference between the meanscores of knowledge in the experimental and control groups in the posttest (P < 0.01). There wasalso a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of attitude in the experimental andcontrol groups at the posttest stage (P < 0.01). There was also a statistically significant differencebetween the mean scores of performance based on group membership (experimental group andcontrol group) in the posttest phase (P < 0.01).CONCLUSIONS: The findings of the study showed that educational intervention on parental skillsin sex education based on the dramatic literature to their children has significant effect on parentalknowledge, attitude, and performance.