The Effect of Libanese Sexual Education Curriculum 2009 on Develping Students' Positive Sexual Attitude and Good Behaviour

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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of implementing the Lebanese sexual education curriculum of 2009 on grade 12 life sciences students’ sexual attitude and behavior in public high schools in Mount Lebanon for three months. An intervention was conducted by using the sexual education curriculum of 2009 on a sample of 30 students as an experimental group, while the control group consisted of 20 students selected from another public school in the same area. Using quasi-experimental non-equivalent design (pre-/post-test), the evaluation of outcomes was measured by using a questionnaire from an illustrative questionnaire for interview-surveys with young people done by John Cleland where questions were selected according to the selected objectives of the new curriculum of 2009 and the students’ social and cultural context and completed by 50 students. After analyzing the data by using SPSS version 16.0, the findings implied that the government should activate the implementation of the sexual education curriculum of 2009 as well as improve it according students’ needs.