Teacher perspectives on support required to implement relationship and sexual education (RSE) programs.

This project is being undertaken as part of a Master of Education program through the University of Southern Queensland.

The purpose of this project is to provide insight into the support needs of teachers to implement relationship and sexual

education (RSE) programs in their schools.

Your participation will involve completion of an online questionnaire that will take approximately 10 minutes of your time.

Questions will include:

• 25 Rating scale questions about your capacity to teach RSE
• What has been your experience teaching RSE at your school?
• What else do you need to support you need to teach RSE?

Your participation in this project is entirely voluntary. If you do not wish to take part, you are not obliged to.

If you decide to take part and later change your mind, you are free to withdraw from the project at any stage.

You will be unable to withdraw data collected about yourself after you have completed the questionnaire.

Your decision whether you take part, do not take part, or take part and then withdraw, will in no way impact your current

or future relationship with the University of Southern Queensland.

It is expected that this project will not directly benefit you. However, it may increase my insight and knowledge about the

support needed for teachers when implementing RSE programs.

As a school Guidance Officer, this will provide me with important information to assist teachers in the future.

In participating in the questionnaire, there are no anticipated risks beyond normal day-to-day living.

Sometimes thinking about the sorts of issues raised in the questionnaire can create some uncomfortable or distressing feelings. If you need to talk to someone about this

immediately, please contact Lifeline on 131144. You may also wish to consider consulting your General Practitioner GP for additional support.

All comments and responses are confidential unless required by law.

The names of individual persons are not required in any of the responses. The deidentified data will not be shared or used for other purposes.

If participants request information or a report of the data an executive summary will be provided.

Any data collected as a part of this project will be stored securely, as per University of Southern Queensland’s

Research Data and Primary Materials Management Procedure.

Clicking on the ‘Submit’ button at the conclusion of the questionnaire is accepted as an indication of your

consent to participate in this project.

Please refer to the Research team details at the top of the form to have any questions answered or to request

further information about this project.

If you have any concerns or complaints about the ethical conduct of the project, you may contact the

University of Southern Queensland, Manager of Research Integrity and Ethics on +61 7 4687 5703 or email researchintegrity@unisq.edu.au.

The Manager of Research Integrity and Ethics is not connected with the research project and can address

your concern in an unbiased manner.