Abstract
Abstract The paper present the results of a research about the sexual life of Cypriots students. Specifically focused on the practices who the young adults use in their sexual life, if they can recognize the risks they are exposed to, take precautions and behave rationally in order to prevent serious conditions that may lead to insurmountable problems decisive for their health. It endeavours to find out perceptions and attitudes of students on matters of health protection (sexually transmitted diseases, use of substances) as factors directly related to and influence their life on issues of health prevention and promotion. An important factor causing unwillingness to fill out the questionnaires was the very personal nature of the questions concerning the sexual behaviour of the participants, but also the large number of questions. Taking into consideration the large difference between men and women that reported to have sexual relations, as well as society’s tendency that encourages men to brag about their sexual conquests while almost stigmatizing women, overestimation for males and underestimation for females cannot be excluded. The interpretation of the research’s results shows that young adult students seem quite knowledgeable about their sexuality, protection measures and the risks at hand. At the same time though there are several deficiencies related to the source and transmission of correct knowledge which need to be covered. The fact that becomes clear about the information sources highlights the importance of both the accuracy and appropriateness of targeted information by specialists, as well as, possibly, of the limited influence of the sources that young people reported to use for getting information/learning. Keywords : sexually transmitted diseases, behavior, knowledge, attitudes, health protection
Highlights
At the same time though there are several deficiencies related to the source and transmission of correct knowledge which need to be covered
The fact that becomes clear about the information sources highlights the importance of both the accuracy and appropriateness of targeted information by specialists, as well as, possibly, of the limited influence of the sources that young people reported to use for getting information/learning
The interpretation of the research’s results shows that young adult students are generally willing to talk openly about their sexual life and to highlight their concerns. They seem quite knowledgeable about their sexuality, protection measures and the risks at hand
Summary
The answers were coded and the resulting data was analysed using the SPSS 20 statistical software. There is only a small number of numerical data which comes mostly from questions rating the respondents’ knowledge. The questions were studied using mainly descriptive statistics, i.e. by recording the percentages of each category since the data is mostly qualitative. In order to identify possible correlations between two questionnaire items non-parametric tests were used, the χ2 test and the p value was recorded – Asymptotic Significance (i.e. the lowest significance level at which the hypothesis that two variables are not correlated can be rejected). The χ2 test aims to identify differentiations in statistically significant rates between the categories of two groups that cannot be considered random. P values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant and are attributed to possible correlations between two variables The answers of men and women to a specific question were compared in order to discover probable differentiation in the answers which were due either to gender or their answers to some other question
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