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 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.
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Knowledge, Attitude, Preventive Practices