Peer Education on Genital Hygiene and Self-Care
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexFemale
Age18-24
SponsorKahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University
About this trial
This study was conducted to determine the effects of peer education provided to teenage girls on genital hygiene behaviors and self-care agency. The study was conducted with a randomized controlled design with a pretest-posttest control group. The study was conducted with female students studying at Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University Technical Sciences Vocational School between October and November 2025. The research population consisted of all female students at the school, and the sample consisted of students who agreed to participate in the study, signed the consent form, and met the inclusion criteria. Data were collected using a "Personal Information Form," a "Genital Hygiene Behaviors Scale," and a "Self-Care Agency Scale." Peer education was administered to the intervention group, while the control group received no training.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Being between 18 and 24 years of age,
Agreeing to participate in the study and signing the consent form,
Having no communication difficulties,
Completely completing the data collection form.
Disqualifiers
Taking a health course,
Being unable to communicate,
Not being at school during the training period,
Filling out the data collection form incompletely.
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Genital Hygiene Education
BehavioralGenital Hygiene Training: Young girls who agree to participate will receive two sessions of two hours of genital hygiene training on a predetermined date, as appropriate. Genital hygiene training will be delivered via PowerPoint presentation, and at the end of the training, a training booklet and brochure, developed in accordance with the relevant literature, will be distributed to the participating girls to ensure retention. The training booklet and brochure will be prepared by the researcher based on current literature sources. Expert opinions will be sought from obstetrics and gynecology nursing experts regarding the training content and will be revised as necessary. The content of the training booklet will cover the female internal and external genital organs, the importance of genital infections for women's health, factors affecting genital hygiene, characteristics of normal and abnormal genital discharge, common genital infections, signs and symptoms of genital infection, and pro
Treatment groups
72 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Genital Hygiene Training:Experimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Control GroupNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Self-care power will be assessed using the Self-Care Power Scale. The instrument consists of 35 items scored on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 0 ("does not describe me at all") to 4 ("describes me very well"). The total score ranges from 0 to 140, w
Time frame
four weeks after the pre-test administration2
Change in genital hygiene behavior will be assessed using the Genital Hygiene Behavior Inventory. The scale consists of 23 items scored on a 5-point Likert scale, covering three subdimensions: general hygiene behavior, menstrual hygiene, and awareness of
Time frame
four weeks after the pre-test administrationLocations
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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