Reproductive Tract Infections in Rural Vietnam, Women's Knowledge, and Health-Seeking Behavior: A Cross-Sectional Study

Nielsen, Anna; Lan, Phạm Thị; Marrone, Gaetano; Phuc, Ho Dang; Chúc, Nguyễn Thị Kim; Lundborg, Cecilia Stålsby

doi:10.1080/07399332.2014.920021

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“…Delivery often causes soft birth canal injury, which in turn leads to infection. Some of our findings are consistent with previous reports [22,47,48]. Specifically, significant differences have been seen in the prevalence of STIs and endogenous infections in different socio-demographic contexts.…”

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The Prevalence of Reproductive Tract Infections in a Chinese Internal Migrant Population, and Its Correlation with Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices: A Cross-Sectional Study

Zhou

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Objective: This study was designed to assess the prevalence of reproductive tract infections (RTIs) among an internal-migrant population of reproductive age in China. We also analyzed the knowledge, attitude, and practices related to these infections. Methods: A cross-sectional study using the quota-sampling method was conducted in three cities from March 2016 to February 2017. A total of 3320 participants (40.7% men and 59.3% women) were enrolled in the study, of whom, 1124, 1015, and 1181 were from Yinchuan, Urumchi, and Shanghai, respectively. Data on the included subjects were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Results: We found that 3.2% and 22.6% of all subjects lacked knowledge regarding the identification and prevention of RTIs, respectively. More than 80% of the participants approved of developing RTI surveillance and taking RTI-related courses. While 45.1% of the respondents changed their underwear every 2–3 days, 49.0% cleaned their genitals daily, and 34.9% reported taking a bath daily. Among contraceptive users, 47.4% and 29.7% used condoms and IUDs (intrauterine devices), respectively. Overall, 48.2% of the participants had laboratory-confirmed sexually transmitted infections, and 19.7% of the female participants had endogenous infections. After controlling the socio-demographic variables, participants who cleaned their genitals and took a bath less frequently, as well as used condoms or pills had a lower prevalence of sexually transmitted infections, while those who were unwilling to take RTI-related courses and changed their underwear less frequently were more likely to contract sexually transmitted infections. While women who were unwilling to take RTI-related courses had a lower prevalence of endogenous infections, those with more children had a higher prevalence. Conclusion: The status of RTIs among the internal-migrant population of reproductive-age is not optimistic and is related to multiple factors. We believe this study will contribute to improving the knowledge, attitude, and practices related to RTIs.

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“…These people often had irregular routines, high-intensity jobs, and unhealthy working environments. On the other hand, participants with higher income levels were more eager and able to improve their quality of life, including cleaner surroundings, accessible health services [48], and maintaining physical and mental health.…”

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The Prevalence of Reproductive Tract Infections in a Chinese Internal Migrant Population, and Its Correlation with Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices: A Cross-Sectional Study

Zhou

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“…This study shows that when patients have high health knowledge involvement, their health communication effects are better. This result is similar to Nielsen’s study (2014) which pointed out that there was significant correlation between level of knowledge and health-seeking behavior [ 36 ]. This study also revealed that when people more actively seek involvement with health knowledge and are adept at searching online for medical information, they have greater understanding of online medical information.…”

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The effects of situated learning and health knowledge involvement on health communications

Lee

2014

Reprod Health

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BackgroundMany patients use websites, blogs, or online social communities to gain health knowledge, information about disease symptoms, and disease diagnosis opinions. The purpose of this study is to use the online platform of blogs to explore whether the framing effect of information content, situated learning of information content, and health knowledge involvement would affect health communication between doctors and patients and further explore whether this would increase patient willingness to seek treatment.MethodsThis study uses a survey to collect data from patient subjects who have used online doctor blogs or patients who have discussed medical information with doctors on blogs. The number of valid questionnaire samples is 278, and partial least square is used to conduct structural equation model analysis.ResultsResearch results show that situated learning and health knowledge involvement have a positive effect on health communication. The negative framing effect and health knowledge involvement would also affect the patient’s intention to seek medical help. In addition, situated learning and health knowledge involvement would affect the intention to seek medical help through communication factors.ConclusionsBlogs are important communication channels between medical personnel and patients that allow users to consult and ask questions without time limitations and enable them to obtain comprehensive health information.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1742-4755-11-93) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Similarly, studies done in Vietnam and Istanbul reported that identification of vaginal discharge as a symptom associated with suspected reproductive tract infections was poor among women (25,26). Further, another study revealed that most of the participants had no prior factual knowledge about vaginal discharge and its nature (24).…”

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Women’s Knowledge and Experience of Abnormal Vaginal Discharge Living in Estates in Colombo District, Sri Lanka

Ilankoon¹,

Goonewardena²,

Fernandopulle³

et al. 2017

International Journal of Women’s Health and Reproduction Scienc

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Reproductive Tract Infections in Rural Vietnam, Women's Knowledge, and Health-Seeking Behavior: A Cross-Sectional Study

Cited by 9 publications

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The Prevalence of Reproductive Tract Infections in a Chinese Internal Migrant Population, and Its Correlation with Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices: A Cross-Sectional Study

The Prevalence of Reproductive Tract Infections in a Chinese Internal Migrant Population, and Its Correlation with Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices: A Cross-Sectional Study

The effects of situated learning and health knowledge involvement on health communications

Women’s Knowledge and Experience of Abnormal Vaginal Discharge Living in Estates in Colombo District, Sri Lanka

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