간호대학생의 성희롱 예방교육 수행의 효과

Abstract

Objectives This study is a preliminary study conducted to investigate the effect of learning by teaching for sexual harassment prevention education. The study analyzed the effects of nursing students’ teaching experiences in providing sexual harassment prevention education to elementary school students on their gender equality awareness, sexual harassment perception, and sexual harassment behavior.
 Methods The study utilized a pretest-posttest non-equivalent group design with 65 subjects (40 in the experimental group, and 25 in the control group) of fourth year nursing students at a nursing school located in Gyeonggi Province. The experimental group was provided with reference materials, one observation experience of sexual harassment prevention education, and two teaching opportunities for upper elementary students. In contrast, the control group was provided with one session of lecture-type sexual harassment prevention education for 40 minutes. In order to evaluate the effectiveness, a survey was conducted on gender equality awareness, sexual harassment perception, and sexual harassment behavior before and after the intervention in both groups. The effect of sexual harassment prevention education was analyzed with the t-test.
 Results Gender equality awareness and sexual harassment recognition scores significantly increased in the experimental group experiencing teaching activities, compared to the control group that received lecture-type education. Sexual harassment behavior was not statistically significantly different between the groups before and after the intervention.
 Conclusions This study suggests that teaching experience can be an effective teaching and learning method to improve the awareness of gender equality and sexual harassment. In the future, repeated studies that expand the intensity, duration, and number of participants of the intervention program are recommended, as well as long-term effects evaluation studies on sexual harassment perception and behavior.