Degefa, Nega (2016) Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Preventive Practices towards Sexully Transmitted Infection among Arsi Negelle Kilture Preparatory School Students West Arsi Zone Oromia, Ethiopia, 2016. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major global cause of acute illness, infertility, long-term disability and death with serious medical and psychological consequences of millions of men, women and infants. In America surveillance data showed that both young men and young women are heavily affected by STI but young women face the most serious long-term health consequences. Due to their high prevalence, particularly in developing settings, STIs result in substantial productivity losses for individuals and communities, particularly where the majority of the population is less than 40 years of age. The problem of reporting STIs in Ethiopia is generally thought to be similar with other developing countries. Objectives: the objective of this study is to assess knowledge, attitude and preventive practices towards STIs among Arsi Negelle town preparatory school students. Methodology: institutional based cross sectional quantitave study design was employed. A Proportionaite Stratified random sampling technique was used and finally a total of 303 respondents were selected by using systematic random sampling method taking every 4th individual for both strata. Self-administered structured questionnaire which was primarily prepared in English language then translated to Amharic and afan Oromo and retranslated back to English by translator in order to look for consistency of the questions after completely correcting a pretest was done on 5% of the sample at other preparatory school students two weeks prior to te actual data collection time and questionnaire was checked for completeness on daily basis. Result: a total of 303 kilture preparatory school students participated in the study nearly the entire respondents had heard about STIs primarly from radio or TV. Only half (50.8%) of respondents had good knowdege about STIs and 54.5% of respondents were identified to have positive attitude towards STIs. From total participant 38.6% of them reported as they had history of sexual intercourse. Conclusion and recommendation: most of respondents in this study had heard about STIs in one or another way however only slightly near half of respondents have good knowledge regarding the different types of STIs, causes, modes of transmission and method of prevention. This study had call for continued and strengthened health education to bring change in respondents bearing specifically focusing on how to overcome gender differences with respect to knowledge, attitude and preventive practices towards STIs.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2018 10:34 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2018 10:34 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7725 |
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