Study of sexual behaviour in relation to sexually transmitted infections(STIs) among Nigerian undergraduates

作     者：Agan TU Ekabua JE Nyong PP Ndifon WO Itam HI 

作者机构：Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology University of CalabarNigeria Department of Community Medicine 

出 版 物：《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine》 (亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第2卷第6期

页      面：71-77页

核心收录：

学科分类：040106[教育学-高等教育学] 0401[教育学-教育学] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 04[教育学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 

主　　题：Sexual intimacy Undergraduates Safe-sex 

摘      要：Objective:To determine their reproductive health behaviour concerning fidelity and psychosocial intimacy in the face of current trends in sexually transmitted infections(STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus(HIV)/ acquired immune deficiency syndromes(AIDS) ***:A cross-sectional comparative male/female cohort study using a semi-structured questionnaire to interview sexually activity of undergraduates in University of Calabar(UNICAL) was conducted over a three(3) month period in *** used were number of sexual partners,frequency of sexual intercourse in the 6 months preceding,knowledge of last menstrual period(LMP),methods of self-protection against STIs,number of unwanted pregnancies terminated,and contraceptive ***:Of the 1 337 respondents,648 out of 684 males(94.7%) and 543 out of 653 females (83.2%) had multiple sex *** gender difference was statistically significant(P 0.05).While 275(42.0%) of the females could state the exact last menstrual period(LMP),only 14(2.1%) males could remember their mates LMP,and 496(72.5%) of males did not know anything about mates’menstrual *** was no statistical significance difference(P 0.05 ) between both groups in their safe sex practices. One hundred and sixty three(23.8%) male and one hundred and forty one(22.8%) females used condoms,while 347(50.7%) of male and 337(51.6%) of females did *** hundred and seventy six(40.0%) of males’mates had terminated pregnancies and three hundred and forty eight(53.3%) of female respondents admitted doing ***(4.60%) females terminated pregnancy more than six *** had more knowledge of contraceptives but males used