Risk Factors Affecting Condom Use among Royal Thai Army Conscripts in Thailand
| Autor: | Saisiri Mirasena, Watcharee Srithong, Xiaojing Yu, Phrutthinun Surit, He Yi, Ning Zheng, Wutthichai Jariya |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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030505 public health
Higher education business.industry Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virus diseases medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Logistic regression law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Condom law Statistical significance medicine Sexual history 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business Demography School education |
| Zdroj: | World Journal of AIDS. :92-105 |
| ISSN: | 2160-8822 2160-8814 |
| Popis: | The study was conducted to explore factors associated with condom use of young Thai men conscripts. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. Participants were 159 conscripts in second year who served in the Royal Thai Army by lottery method. Demographic data, sexual history including condom use, HIV and STDs and knowledge were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Logistic regression was used to analyze the data. Results: Condom use at the last sex was 41.18% of the conscripts aged 20 - 27 years and secondary school education completed of 74.2%. 25.78% had experience with drugs used but injection was rare (6.9%). Age at the first sex was reported lowest at 11 years, 9.4% reported first sex with men and 21.38% were married. The participants have sexual history (last six months) with female only of 83.2%, male only of 4.1% and both of 14.6%. Among these only 12.6% reported every time of condom use and 19.5% never used condom. Older age, higher education, drinking alcohol, drugs use and higher knowledge were associated with condom use with statistical significance. Conclusions: Condom use among male Thai conscripts was low. Education and a condom use program are urgently needed to prevent future spread of HIV and STDs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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