Effectiveness of premarital sexual counselling program on sexual satisfaction of recently married couples
Bilgin Kıray Vural A C and Ayla Bayık Temel BA Health Services Vocational School, Pamukkale University, Denizli 20020, Turkey.
B Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
C Corresponding author. Email: bilgin.vural@gmail.com
Sexual Health 6(3) 222-232 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH08065
Submitted: 29 August 2008 Accepted: 5 March 2009 Published: 3 August 2009
Abstract
Background: Through its ability to address and remove fear and misunderstanding and the resulting sexual reluctance and related problems, pre-marital sexual education and counselling can contribute to sexual satisfaction. Methods: This quasi-experimental research conducted in a pre-test–post-test control group design aimed to examine the effectiveness of nursing interventions on a premarital counselling program and its impacts on the sexual satisfaction of couples (36 couples in the experimental group and 35 couples in the control group). Results: Although no difference was detected between the experimental and control groups in terms of the level of knowledge on pre-test point averages, the difference between them in terms of post-test knowledge gain averages was statistically significant. Approval rates for sexual myths in the pre-test were 27.87% in the experimental group and 37.03% in the control group; in the post-test they were 23.51% and 36.66% respectively. In the experimental group, 80.6% of the women and 63.9% of the men, and in the control group, 77.1% of the women and 71.4% of the men were established as having a problem-free sexual life. Conclusions: It was also discovered that levels of sexual satisfaction were shown to be higher among women and men in the experimental group who had attended premarital sexual counselling education than the women and men in the control group. A recommendation to encourage engaged couples to attend premarital sexual counselling is made based on the findings. It is thought that an intervention plan prepared within the framework of the Information, Motivation, Behavioural Skills theoretical model will help nurses guide recently-married couples to greater sexual satisfaction.
Additional keywords: premarital counselling, sexual counselling, sexual satisfaction.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the people who gave up their time to participate in the study and thanks also to Murat Kıray and the organisers of the Newspaper Aynalı Pazar. All funding was through internal sources only.
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