ArticleJournal of preventive medicine and hygiene2013
Risk perception of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage sexual behaviour: attitudes towards in a sample of Italian adolescents.
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- Sex Education in Italy: An Overview of 15 Years of Projects in Primary and Secondary Schools.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Pooled it
- Adolescents' Knowledge and Misconceptions About Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Cross-Sectional Study in Middle School Students in Portugal.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Sexually Transmitted Infections in Italian Young and Adult People: A Worrying Positive Trend Hidden by COVID-19 Epidemic.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Cross Section of Public Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Condom use across casual and committed relationships: The role of relationship characteristics.PloS one · 2024Article
- Sexual and reproductive health-related knowledge, attitudes and support network of Italian adolescents.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- A Survey on Knowledge, Prevention, and Occurrence of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Freshmen from Four Italian Universities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
- Knowledge, Information Needs and Risk Perception about HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases after an Education Intervention on Italian High School and University Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The Risky Health Behaviours of Male Adolescents in the Southern Italian Region: Implications for Sexual and Reproductive Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
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- Sexual behaviour among young Danes aged 15-29 years: a cross-sectional study of core indicators.Sexually transmitted infections · 2015Article
- Sexually Transmitted Infections and Health Literacy: A Community-Based Preventive Program.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
- Risk perception of hepatitis B infection and uptake of hepatitis B vaccine among students of tertiary institution in Jos.Annals of African medicineArticle
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Abstract
The aim of the study is to determine awareness about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and their prevention in people aged 14-19 of Ferrara and province. The study was carried out using a self-administered standardised anonymous questionnaire in a sample of students attending to three upper secondary schools. Total number of collected questionnaires was 2695, the average age of interviewed was 17.1. Only 52.3% of respondents correctly recognized STD definition. Over 95% of subjects identified acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), while properly classification of Hepatitis B increased with age and lowest degree of knowledge concerned herpes infection and Candidiasis. Sex without condom (95.97%) and needle exchange in drugs abusers (94.9%) are considered high risk behaviours. 80.3% of interviewed, without distinction of school attendance, sex, and age considered lack of information as a situation of high risk. Condoms are not used by 46.4% of the subjects in case of sex with a regular partner and by 9.5% with casual partner. Majority of students declared condoms very safe in preventing STDs but an important percentage indicated also contraception methods; correct answers were higher among females and increased with age. Main sources of information were TV (21.6%), school (21.1%) and friends (14.8%) and a few sought information from family doctor (7.4%) and web (4.8%). The study suggests, as priority, to improve teenagers' awareness about risk behaviours and prevention of STDs. School can play an important role in reinforcement of sexual education programmes and directing young people to general practitioners and primary sexual health care services.
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