Training Peer Sexual Health Educators: Changes in Knowledge, Counseling Self-Efficacy, and Sexual Risk Behavior

Autor/inn/en	Ehrhardt, Britt L.; Krumboltz, John D.; Koopman, Cheryl
Titel	Training Peer Sexual Health Educators: Changes in Knowledge, Counseling Self-Efficacy, and Sexual Risk Behavior
Quelle	In: American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2 (2007) 1, S.39-55 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-6128
Schlagwörter	Campuses; Health Education; Self Efficacy; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Sexuality; Sex Education; Peer Teaching; Training Methods; College Students; Pretests Posttests; Risk; Health Behavior; Peer Counseling + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Sexual transmitted disease; Geschlechtskrankheit; Sexualität; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Peer group teaching; Peer Group Teaching; Didaktik; Trainingsmaßnahme; Collegestudent; Risiko; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten
Abstract	Peer sexual health education programs are widespread on college campuses, but little research has assessed the effect of these programs on the peer educators. This study employed a repeated measures design to examine changes over the academic quarter in the knowledge, counseling self-efficacy, and sexual behavior of 70 college students enrolled in three different peer educator training programs. Skills necessary for effective sexual health counseling, including knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and counseling self-efficacy, significantly increased from pre-test to post-test. There were no significant changes in risky sexual behavior, measured by the number of partners and nonuse of barrier methods during penetrative encounters. Participants in a student-taught training program, which prepares enrollees to work in an on-campus resource center, demonstrated the most improved knowledge and counseling self-efficacy. These results suggest that programs training peer educators may improve trainees' knowledge and confidence in their abilities to counsel other students about sexual health. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10