Objective@#To investigate the
awareness of
sexuality education knowledge in kindergarten teachers in
rural areas of Sichuan and its influencing factors, and to provide a scientific basis for
sex education capacity improvement among rural teachers.@*
Methods@#With multi stage stratified
cluster sampling method, 162 teachers selected from 16 rural kindergartens in
rural areas of Sichuan Province to conduct
questionnaires related to early childhood
sex education.@*Results@#The awereness of early childhood
sex education foreskin care in
rural areas in Sichuan was 73.8%.
Knowledge regarding
foreskin care(58.8%)", "the function of the
family includes
rest and entertainment functions(65.6%)", "
girls need to clean the reproductive truets from the front to
back (68.8%)". Multivariate non conditional
Logistic regression analysis results showed that
teaching experience>4 years(OR=4.16, 95%CI=1.74-9.98),
notice of young
children with sexual related
behaviors(OR=2.97, 95%CI=1.19-7.40), the number of sources of sexual
knowledge sources ≥5(OR=3.39, 95%CI=1.42-8.13) were associated with high
awareness of preschool
sex education knowledge.@*Conclusion@#The preschool
sex education knowledge awareness among Sichuan rural kindergarten teachers
needs to be improved. A variety of
sex education channels should be constructed to encourage teachers, especially those
who are newly employed, to acquire more relevant
knowledge, pay
attention to
children’s
sex related
behaviors, and improve their
ability in
sex education.