Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Preventive Practices Towards Sexully Transmitted Infection among Arsi Negelle Kilture Preparatory School Students West Arsi Zone Oromia, Ethiopia, 2016
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2016-05
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major global cause of acute illness,infertility, long-term disability and death with serious medical and psychological consequencesof millions of men, women and infants. In America surveillance data showed that both youngmen and young women are heavily affected by STI but young women face themost seriouslong-term health consequences.Due to their high prevalence, particularly in developingsettings, 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 ofreporting 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 preventivepractices towards STIs among Arsi Negelle town preparatory school students.
Methodology: institutional based cross sectional quantitave study design was employed. AProportionaite Stratified random sampling technique was used and finally a total of 303respondents were selected by using systematic random sampling method taking every 4thindividual for both strata. Self-administered structured questionnaire which was primarilyprepared in English language then translated to Amharic and afan Oromo and retranslated backto English by translator in order to look for consistency of the questions after completelycorrecting a pretest was done on 5% of the sample at other preparatory school students twoweeks prior to te actual data collection time and questionnaire was checked for completenesson daily basis.
Result: a total of 303 kilture preparatory school students participated in the study nearly theentire respondents had heard about STIs primarly from radio or TV. Only half (50.8%) ofrespondents had good knowdege about STIs and 54.5% of respondents were identified to havepositive attitude towards STIs. From total participant 38.6% of them reported as they hadhistory of sexual intercourse.
Conclusion and recommendation: most of respondents in this study had heard about STIs inone or another way however only slightly near half of respondents have good knowledgeregarding 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 inrespondents bearing specifically focusing on how to overcome gender differences with respectto knowledge, attitude and preventive practices towards STIs.
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Knowledge Attitude Preventive Practices