Design and assessment of a preventive behavioral training program for Sexual Transmited Infections among women

The effect of an educational intervention on promoting preventive behaviors of sexual transmitted infections in women 18 to 48 years in Tehran.

A clinical trial with control and interventions group.

According to the inclusion criteria, the target group is women aged 18 to 48 years in Tehran which will be announced through an internet call on several common social networks for participation in the study.

Living in Tehran, having the desire and ability to continue research, without any chronic debilitating diseases such as (cancer, MS, acute heart disease), age 18 to 48 years, no mental disorders, drug dependence and addiction, having a minimum Literacy and the ability to answer questions and discuss in classrooms exclusion criteria: Mental disorders, drug dependence and addiction

.In the intervention group, the educational content will be presented based on the learning objectives pre-formulated in the second phase of the study in the form of mini lecture, group discussions, film screening, and infographic display.The number of training sessions will vary depending on the performance constraints, audience participation, number of dependent variables, and specific objectives in the third phase of the study, but at least about 4 2-hour training sessions over a period of one month are expected. In the beginning, no educational intervention will be done, but at the end of the study, a booklet containing information about sexually transmitted diseases will be given as a gift to the participants.

Promoting behaviors to prevent sexually transmitted infections, including the The intention for safe sex (using condom) The intention for doing a screening test (pap-test, genital examination,ect)

Random permutation block design of two treatments with quadruple blocks: Thus, the letter A is considered for the intervention group and the letter B is considered for the control group. Then we write all the permutation combinations of the letters A, A, B and B, which are 6 different combinations, on 6 cards as follows: BBAA,BABA,BAAB,ABAB,ABBA,AABB ,We then randomly select a digit from digits 1 to 6 (by someone other than the researcher). For example, if the number 2 is selected, it means that the first person in the intervention group, the next two people in the control group and the fourth person in the intervention group, and we continue this operation until the sample size reaches the quorum

In this study, data can be shared after people are unrecognizable

Access to study documentation will begin 6 months after the results are published

Study documentation will be available to researchers in academic and scientific institutions

The use of data is allowed with the permission of the ethics committee of Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran

1- Dr. Fatemeh Zarei, Assistant Professor of Health Education and health promotion, Tarbiat Modares University, f.zarei@modares.ac.ir 2- Afsaneh Karami Joyani, PhD student in health education and health promotion K.Afsaneh@modares.ac.ir

A week after receiving the request via email the corresponding researcher. (f.zarei@modares.ac.ir)