Sexual Health Literacy Scale

Sexual Behavior Clinical Trial

— SHLS  

Official title:

Development of the Sexual Health Literacy Scale

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05821907
• Other study ID #: 2023.shls.olmezyalazi
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: March 4, 2024
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Marmara University
• Contact: Rüveyda ölmez yalazi, PhDc
• Phone: 05077243379
• Email: ruveyda.olmezz[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

According to the World Health Organization, sexual health is a state of well-being related to sexuality as a whole, not just the absence of disease or dysfunction or disability. sexual health; It requires a positive and respectful attitude, free from sexual coercion and discrimination, free of violence, enjoyable and safe experiences. It obliges the respect, protection and fulfillment of the sexual rights of every individual. sexual health; includes a safe and respectful framework free from violence and discrimination; it covers not only the reproductive period, but every age period; different sexual identities and forms of sexual expression, as well as livable and critical gender values, roles, expectations and power dynamics. Insufficient information, difficult access to health services and lack of a guiding structure; It negatively affects young individuals' ability to take responsible decisions with good knowledge about sexuality during their sexual development. Information is obtained from channels where erroneous and incorrect information transfer is intense, and the ways of accessing this information play an important role in the spread of sexual myths in society. Based on all these reasons; This study aimed to develop the Sexual Health Literacy Scale.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 400
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: May 30, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals over the age of 18 who are willing to participate in the study, without psychiatric illness,
• No physical or mental disability
• Able to speak and understand Turkish.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not willing to participate in the study, with psychiatric illness,
• Physically and mentally handicapped
• 18 years and under,
• Does not speak Turkish

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Literacy
• Sexual Behavior
• Sexuality

Intervention

Behavioral:
• data collection group
The scale development process generally consists of three stages as item production, theoretical analysis and psychometric analysis. The researcher provides theoretical support to the item pool during item production. In the theoretical analysis stage, the content validity of the new scale is evaluated and the first item pool is ensured to reflect the desired structure. In the final stage of the psychometric analysis, the researcher evaluates whether the new scale establishes validity and reliability.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Marmara University	Istanbul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Nurdan Demirci

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	scale development	The data will be collected with the online data collection tool created by the researchers through the software called google forms. During data collection, the e-mail address of the researchers will be indicated on the form so that the questions of the participants can be answered by the researchers. You will be informed that filling out the data collection form will take an average of 10 minutes for each participant.; In addition, in order to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the scale, data collection tools will be sent to at least 30 randomly selected individuals from the sample two weeks after the first data collection.	3 month
Primary	test-retest reliability of the scale	In order to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the scale, data collection tools will be sent to at least 30 randomly selected individuals from the sample two weeks after the first data collection. Therefore, after the pre-application, the scale will be applied to 400 people within the scope of the calculated sample, and then, two weeks later, at least 50 people will be re-applied from the individuals to whom the same scale was applied.	Retest( later 2 weeks)