Effect of Fertility Health Education Program on Fertility Health Knowledge and Healthy Life Awareness

This study was planned to examine the effect of the fertility health education program given to young people on fertility health knowledge and healthy life awareness. The study was planned to be conducted as a randomized controlled experimental study in the pre-test-post-test order. The population of the research will consist of students studying at Gaziantep University Naci Topçuoğlu Vocational School in the 2024-2025 academic year. The research sample was calculated as a minimum of 64 people per group (experimental and control group) and 128 people in total. Considering the possible losses that may occur during the research process, a total of 146 students are planned to be accepted. Data in the research; It will be collected through "Introductory Information Form", "Fertility Health Information Scale", "Healthy Life Awareness Scale" and "Training Program Satisfaction Survey". In the research, the Fertility Health Education Program consisting of 3 sessions will be applied to the intervention group, and the control group will be informed about the research process and the data collection forms to be used. Data collection forms will be applied to students in both groups before and after the training. In the analysis of the data; mean±standard deviation and median (minimum-maximum) will be used for quantitative variables as descriptors, and the number of patients (percentage) will be used for qualitative variables. Student-t test, Mann-Whitney U test, One Way ANOVA test, Kruskal Wallis H test, Chi-square and Fisher exact tests will be used in the analysis, depending on the assumption of normal distribution. Risk factors affecting the qualitative dependent variable will be examined with Logistic Regression analysis. The statistical significance level will be taken as 0.05.