NDLI: A Cross-Sectional Study of Knowledge, Perceptions and Misconceptions about RTIs, STIs and HIV/AIDS among Young Married Rural Women in Tamilnadu State, India

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A Cross-Sectional Study of Knowledge, Perceptions and Misconceptions about RTIs, STIs and HIV/AIDS among Young Married Rural Women in Tamilnadu State, India

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Author	Ravi, Rejoice Puthuchira Kulasekaran, Ravishankar Athimulam
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	2 Abstract: Aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, perception and misconceptions about Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI's), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI's) and HIV/AIDS among young married scheduled castes women in rural areas of Tamilnadu state in India. A community based cross-sectional study was conducted in 28 villages selected using multistage sampling technique for selecting 605 women in the age group of 15-24 years during July 2010-April 2011. The result reveals that only 28.4% and 37.9% of women had knowledge of RTI's and STI's respectively. About 44.4% of women had the misconception that RTI's were communicable disease. 90.6% of women had knowledge about HIV/AIDS. About 8.8% of women reported that HIV/AIDS could be transmitted by 'sharing common toilet' and other misconception was bitten by mosquitoes, fleas or bedbugs (8%). The proportion of women in households in the high standard of living index (SLI) had more knowledge of HIV/AIDS (77.4%) than women in low SLI (52.1%). One of the serious public health challenges in rural areas is the less awareness regarding sexual health issues and other communicable diseases. It concludes that women in rural area were living with very poor standard of health and less education appear to be the main reasons for less awareness about sexual health issues. It recommends that state policy makers should be introduced community intervention programmes to increase the awareness level regarding sexual health issues among rural population.
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