Swedish adolescents' knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases and their attitudes to the condom

The relationship between knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases and actual sexual behaviour in a group of teenage girls.

“…Neither was frequent partner change related to reliable STD protection. Twenty girls reported more than 4 life-time partners at the age of 18 and had changed partners on average 4-3 times (range [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] during the study. Nineteen of them reported coitus without condom in relationships of less than 6 months duration.…”

A study on knowledge attitude and practice of contraception in school going children in Wardha district in central India

“…In the study by Gottvall et al, 17 no difference in condom use was observed between girls and boys . In two Swedish studies by Tyden et al 18 and by Andersson-Ellström et al, 19 all surveyed adolescents knew that the use of condoms can protect against the contraction of STDs in general.…”

A study on knowledge, attitude and practice of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV in adolescent population in Wardha, Maharashtra, India

“…11 Gonorrhoea was identified as an STD from a given list by 84% of adolescents in the survey by Tyden et al by 98% in the survey by Andersson-Ellström et al and by 53% in the survey by Garside, et al Knowledge and awareness was quite high in all studies reporting on HIV/AIDS, with more than 90% of adolescents being able to identify the disease as an STD from a given list or in response to the direct question "Have you ever heard of HIV/AIDS?" [12][13][14][15] In one study where the open question "Which STDs do you know or have you heard of?" was used, 88% of respondents mentioned HIV/AIDS.…”