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Amu EO, Adegun PT. Awareness and Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Secondary School Adolescents in Ado Ekiti, South Western Nigeria. J Sex Transm Dis. 2015;2015:260126doi: 10.1155/2015/260126.
Amu, E. O., & Adegun, P. T. (2015). Awareness and Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Secondary School Adolescents in Ado Ekiti, South Western Nigeria. Journal of sexually transmitted diseases, 2015260126. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/260126
Amu, E O, and Adegun, P T. "Awareness and Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Secondary School Adolescents in Ado Ekiti, South Western Nigeria." Journal of sexually transmitted diseases vol. 2015 (2015): 260126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/260126
Amu EO, Adegun PT. Awareness and Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Secondary School Adolescents in Ado Ekiti, South Western Nigeria. J Sex Transm Dis. 2015;2015:260126. doi: 10.1155/2015/260126. Epub 2015 Aug 09. PMID: 26345225; PMCID: PMC4546807.
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J Sex Transm Dis. 2015;2015:260126. doi: 10.1155/2015/260126. Epub 2015 Aug 09.

Awareness and Knowledge of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Secondary School Adolescents in Ado Ekiti, South Western Nigeria.

Journal of sexually transmitted diseases

E O Amu, P T Adegun

Affiliations

  1. Department of Community Medicine, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State 30001, Nigeria.
  2. Department of Surgery, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State 30001, Nigeria.

PMID: 26345225 PMCID: PMC4546807 DOI: 10.1155/2015/260126

Abstract

Objective. To determine the awareness and knowledge of sexually transmitted infections among adolescents in Ado, South Western Nigeria. Methods. The study was a descriptive cross-sectional design. Five hundred and fifty adolescents selected from public and private secondary schools in Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State were recruited using a multistage sampling technique. Results. Four hundred and ninety-nine (92.4%) respondents had heard about sexually transmitted infections before, the three most important sources of information being electronic media (68.7%); teachers (68.1%); and print media (44.9%). Eighty percent of the respondents knew only one STI and the two most commonly mentioned ones were HIV/AIDS (78.0%) and gonorrhea (23.0%). More than 75% of the respondents knew the modes of transmission of STIs while some of them equally had misconceptions. The most important symptoms mentioned were weight loss (77.4%), painful micturition (68.9%), and genital ulcer (54.1%). On the whole, only 6.9% of the respondents had good knowledge of STIs; the rest had fair and poor knowledge. Conclusion. Secondary school adolescents in Ado Local Government Area have only a fair knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases. STI studies should be inculcated into the school curriculum and media publicity/enlightenment campaigns about them should be intensified.

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