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Sexually Transmitted DiseasesOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Based on the findings of the current study the following conclusions can be drawn: Near to half of the student was in the age group 16-18 years with mean age 17.75±1.635, More than three quarters of students had unsatisfactory knowledge of STDs, and low agreement toward risk behaviors and had a negative attitude toward STDs, While, the majority of them had positive preventive behaviors toward STDs, positive beliefs toward STDs, and had negative attitudes toward STDs. Moreover, there is a significant relation between STDs knowledge of students and their age, education, and place of residence. Satisfactory knowledge is higher in ages >18 than other ages. All students <15 years had unsatisfactory knowledge. There is a significant relation between students’ beliefs toward STDs and their education and place of residence. While, there is no significant relation between students’ knowledge about STDs and their attitude toward STDs.
Recommendations
Based on the results of the present study and research questions the following recommendations are suggested:
1. Implement health educational programs to increase adolescent student’s awareness toward STDs and its preventive behaviors.
2. Implement health educational programs for teachers and school nurses to ensure that proper STDs information is relayed in an age-appropriate manner that is interesting and retainable.
3. Further researchs should be conducted.
Summary
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are a large group of infectious diseases associated with different etiologies, characterized by their sexual transmission and genital location, STDs prevention is an essential primary care strategy for improving reproductive health (Barrow et al., 2020).
Perception is the process through which the information from the outside environment is selected, received, organized and interpreted to make it meaningful, adolescents is one of the main groups at risk of infection by STD’s, this leads to the need to pay attention regarding their knowledge and exposure to risk behaviors, to estimate possible predictors of preventive behaviors, weak knowledge, attitude and believes regarding STDs (Barrow et al., 2020).
Aim of the study
The aim of this study was to assess perception of adolescent students toward STDs.
Research design:
A descriptive design was utilized to conduct the current study.
Study setting:
This study was conducted at Abasia Nursing Institute for boys in Abasia Mental Health hospital and Technical Health Institute in Imbaba both affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Population.
Subjects:
A purposive sample composed of 321 adolescent male students, at the previously mentioned settings.
Tools of data collection:
The data for this study were collected through the following tools:
I- Interview questionnaire format (Appendix I):
It was developed by the investigator, written in simple Arabic language. It consisted of five parts:
Part 1: A- It is concerned with socio-demographic characteristics of adolescent students including age, educational level, residence, occupation, and monthly expense Appendix I (Q1-Q5).
B- It is concerned with family socio-demographic characteristics including: parent’s age, educational level, occupation, family type, family members’ number, crowding index, income, and residence (Q6-Q16).
Part 2: It is concerned with the health history of adolescent students (past, present, medical, surgical and family history) (Q17-Q23).
Part 3: It is concerned with the knowledge of adolescent students regarding STDs as definition, types, causative organisms, causes, signs and symptoms, risk factors, complications, prevention, examinations and sources of health information (Q24-Q33).
Part 4: It is concerned with the assessment of adolescent students’ risk behaviors toward STDs (Q1-Q14).
Part 5: It is concerned with the assessment of adolescent students’ preventive behaviors toward STDs (Q1-Q16).
Appendix II: Perception of adolescent students’ questionnaire regarding STDs: it was adopted from (Chacko et al., 2007) modified by the investigator, and translated into an Arabic language, it consisted of two parts:
Part 1: It is concerned with the beliefs of adolescent students regarding STDs (Q1-Q9).
Part 2: It is concerned with the attitude of adolescent students regarding STDs (Q1-Q16).
Field work:
The actual field work started at the beginning of March 2021 and was completed by April 2021 (2 months). The investigator was available in the study settings two days per week (Sundays, and Tuesdays) to collect data from (8 am to 1 pm).
The main findings of the present study were the following:
1. Near to half (49.8%) of the students was in the age group 16-18 years with a mean age 17.75±1.635. Also, 62% had a level education of Nursing Technical Institute while, 51.7% work with study, 62% had enough monthly expense.
2. All the adolescent students (100%) never had a relative with STDs.
3. More than half (58.3%) of the students had their health information about STDs from the internet, while 51.3% from TV and social media, and 39.4% from the school.
4. More than three quarters (87.9%) of students had unsatisfactory knowledge regarding STDs. while, (79.8%) of them had low agreement towards risk behaviors of STDs.
5. The majority (98.1%) of students had positive preventive behaviors, (91.9%) of them had positive beliefs and (94.1%) of them had negative attitude toward STDs.
6. There is a significant relation between STDs knowledge, risk behaviors of students and their age, education and place of residence. Also, a significant relation between students’ beliefs towards STDs and their education and place of residence. But there is no significant relation between the students’ personal characteristics and their attitudes of STDs (p≤ 0.05).
7. There is no significant relation between students’ knowledge of STDs and their attitude toward STDs (P-value > 0.05).
Conclusion:
More than three quarters of the students had unsatisfactory knowledge about STDs, low agreement towards risk behaviors. While, the majority of them had a negative attitude toward STDs, positive preventive behaviors and positive beliefs toward STDs.
Recommendations:
Conduct health educational programs to increase the adolescent students’ awareness toward STDs, and its preventive behaviors.