A Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey regarding Sex, Contraception and Sexually Transmitted Diseases among Commerce College Students in Mumbai

Mutha, Amit S.; Mutha, Sonali A; Baghel, Paritosh J; Patil, Ramanand J; Bhagat, Sagar; Patel, Sadiq B; Watsa, M

doi:10.7860/jcdr/2014/9967.4684

Cited by 10 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In addition, the lower Traditional sexual morality found in our male students was consistent with Higgins, et al [9], a research showing that men reported lower sexual morality and had more liberal attitudes to the premarital sex and homosexuality. The higher Sexual knowledge in our male students was consistent with the finding that women had less knowledge about sex than men [26,27]. Furthermore, people with less accurate sexual knowledge were more likely to have conservative sexual attitudes [28].…”

Section: Statistical Analysessupporting

confidence: 87%

How Sexual Behaviors are Influenced by Personal Cognition and Control Toward Sex? Let Chinese University Students Tell You

Feng¹,

Chu²,

Jia³

et al. 2019

Int J Psychol Psychoanal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In addition to sexual desire and knowledge, sexual morality, desire control, and attitude toward sex might contribute to the premarital sexual behaviors in young people, but were less studied. In 886 Chinese university students of Study 1, we have developed a Sexual Awareness and Coping Strategy Inventory (SACSI) with four domains of Personal release, Sexual knowledge, Traditional sexual morality and Negative attitude, which displayed satisfactory convergent and discriminant validities. In Study 2, we have invited 25 female students with (FS) and 50 without (FN), 50 male with (MS) and 97 without (MN) premarital sexual experience, to answer the SACSI, the sociodemographic and sexual risk behavior-related questions. Male students scored higher on Personal release, Sexual knowledge, and Negative attitude, but lower on Traditional sexual morality than female did. The FS group scored higher on Personal release, but lower on Negative attitude than FN did. The Negative attitude in MS and FS were correlated with the premarital sexual behaviors. Our studies have depicted more factors crucial for the premarital sexual behaviors, and recall for more education on the desire control and attitude toward sex in university students.

show abstract

Section: Statistical Analysessupporting

confidence: 87%

How Sexual Behaviors are Influenced by Personal Cognition and Control Toward Sex? Let Chinese University Students Tell You

Feng¹,

Chu²,

Jia³

et al. 2019

Int J Psychol Psychoanal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The knowledge of sex as well as sexual activity was significantly higher as the age or education level increases. Although the prevalence of sexual activity was comparable to other Indian studies [ 5 6 ] but the prevalence of sexual intercourse is much higher in our study. Ramadugu et al .…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

“…Premarital sex was reported by 48% boys and 18% girls. [ 5 ] In another study by Sscbunya et al . in 2019 in Uganda, the prevalence of sexual activity was 67.6% among females.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adolescent sexual behaviour and its determinants: A hospital-based study

Gupta

Anwar

Varun

et al. 2020

J Family Med Prim Care

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Aim: To know the prevalence of sexual activity, their sexual behaviour and attitude towards sex among unmarried adolescent females. Materials and Methods: It was a hospital-based prospective observational study. The study duration was 1 year. The study participants were unmarried girls between the age group of 10–19 years who gave written informed consent. In the case of a minor, consent was obtained from parents also. Pre-designed, pre-structured and pre-tested questionnaire was used to evaluate the sexual behaviour. Results: Out of the 320 adolescents presented to the OPD, only 165 consented to participate in the study. Prevalence of sexual activity was 16.9% (28/165) in the study. Eight (8/165) adolescent girls have not attained menarche and all were not having any knowledge of sex. Three girls were the victims of sexual exploitation. Around 64% of these girls were sexually active with their classmates. All the sexually active females were having intercourse through the vaginal route, however non-vaginal route was also practiced by 6 girls. Home (11, 39%) was the preferred place followed by the hotel (10, 35.7%) for sexual activity. Conclusion: Prevalence of sexual activity is low among Indians as compared to the western world but it may be a tip of iceberg as it is a hospital-based study. This is the first study that assessed the route of intercourse, frequency of sexual activity, and place preferred by these adolescents to evaluate the sexual health behaviour.

show abstract

“…This discrepancy may be attributed to the cultural context of the study population. 8,32 The attitude of medical students is important, because it can lead to social stigma, exclusion, denial, avoidance of care, negligence and distancing from people with HIV/AIDS, which may in turn lead to discrimination in service delivery, poor quality of patient care, and increased treatment costs for these patients. Medical students receive sufficient training and face different cases of this disease throughout their studies, which may provide an opportunity to project a positive attitude toward all patients regardless of the nature of their infection.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

<p>An Analytical Comparison of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding HIV/AIDS Among Medical and Non-Medical Students in Iran</p>

Pourjam¹,

Kandi²,

Estebsari³

et al. 2020

HIV

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background and Objectives: Young people are the main group at risk of HIV/AIDS due to factors such as curiosity, peer pressure, lack of knowledge and skills, unsafe sexual behaviors, and drug abuse. The present study was conducted to compare the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding HIV/AIDS among medical and non-medical students in Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was conducted on a population consisting of the students of Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU). A total of 303 students were randomly selected from the two universities. Data were collected using a researcher-made HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitude, and practice questionnaire. Data were then analyzed using the independent t-test, Mann-Whitney's U-test, the ANOVA, and the Kruskal-Wallis test in SPSS-18. P<0.05 was set as the level of significance for all the tests. Findings: The frequencies of marital status, education, smoking, alcohol and psychotropic substance use, employment status, and source of information differed significantly between the medical and non-medical students. There was a significant difference between the two groups regarding knowledge (P<0.001) and practice (P=0.019) regarding HIV/AIDS. Meanwhile, there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of their attitude toward HIV/AIDS (P=0.503). The results of the ANOVA revealed a significant correlation between marital status and practice (P=0.022), education and attitude (P=0.004), and smoking and knowledge (P=0.008) among the medical students. Meanwhile, there was no significant difference between the demographic variables and knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding HIV/AIDS among the non-medical students (P>0.005). Conclusion:The present findings showed that designing and developing appropriate educational programs, offered through group media, scientific seminars, courses, lectures, and group discussions, can be effective in enhancing the students' knowledge and changing their attitudes and should be incorporated into healthcare programs.

show abstract

A Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey regarding Sex, Contraception and Sexually Transmitted Diseases among Commerce College Students in Mumbai

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

How Sexual Behaviors are Influenced by Personal Cognition and Control Toward Sex? Let Chinese University Students Tell You

How Sexual Behaviors are Influenced by Personal Cognition and Control Toward Sex? Let Chinese University Students Tell You

Adolescent sexual behaviour and its determinants: A hospital-based study

<p>An Analytical Comparison of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding HIV/AIDS Among Medical and Non-Medical Students in Iran</p>

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About