CHANGES IN THE AWARENESS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES STUDENTS ON SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES DURING A DECADE

Abstract

We investigated the change in the status of awareness of the Social Sciences Faculty students on sexually transmitted diseases during ten years. The study was conducted in two stages each comprising 245 Social Sciences Faculty students first in 2000-2001 and the second in 2009-2010 educational years. Group I were composed of 40% female and 60% male, and Group II were of 34.7% female and 65.3% male students. The overwhelming majority of the students have responded unknown partner as risky for STDs. Significantly more students reported the chance of transmission of urethritis per intercourse for male partners correctly. By contrast, no change was observed in the responses that of for females. Lesser students responded the definition of honeymoon cystitis as urinary tract infection at first month. More students of all the groups found unsafe sexual experience to overcome first night failure anxiety risky for STDs. Overwhelmingly more students preferred medical doctors in case of STDs for treatment. Our results have clarified that during the last decade the awareness levels of the Social Sciences Faculty students on STDs have not increased. Formal sexual education should be a part of academic education least at the beginning years of university education