THE LEVEL OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON SEXUAL TRANSMITTED INFECTION (STIS ) AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
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THE LEVEL OF
THE KNOWLEDGE AND SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON SEXUAL TRANSMITTED INFECTION (STIS )
AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
ABSTRACT
This study
was designed to investigate the level of knowledge and source information of
sexual transmitted infection among secondary school students in Amuwo-Odofin
Local Government Area of Lagos State. Emphasis was put on trying to establish
the relationship between level of knowledge and source of information because
of culture and religions barriers.
The study
employed the use of correlation design to establish the nature of the
relationship. The validity and reliability of research instrument was
established and data was collected from 100 respondent selected from six school
in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State using the simple random
sampling method. To analyze the data, the Pearson product moment correlation.
Statistical tool was used with the aim of establishing the relationship between
student knowledge and source, parent, social economic status former background
and academic performance of junior secondary student in Amuwo-Odofin Lagos
Government Area of Lagos State. This formed the basis of the detailed analysis
and conclusion and recommendation.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0INTRODUCTION
This
chapter, contain the background purpose, objective question, hypothesis and
significance of the study.
1.1BACKGROUND
OF THE STUDY
Young people
(youth) between ages 10 and 24 years comprise the largest and fastest growing
population segment in Sub-Saharan Africa. From 1980 to 1995, the population of
this age group grew to 56 percent early and unprotected sexual activities
expose youth to the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. STIs are major public
health problem especially due to their potentially serious complication when
untreated as well as their relationship and HIV transmission. They cause
considerable morbidity and premature mortality. Worldwide, young people under
the age of 25 years, who represent nearly half of the world’s population,
experience over 100 million new cases of STI annually.
Various
surveys indicate that as in many other developing countries a high proportion
of young people in Nigeria have unprotected penetrative sex by the age of 16
years (3-5) while 23 percent and 25 percent of primary school boys (12-20)
years and girls (12-19) years respectively reported past experience of sexually
transmitted disease (STDs) in Lagos a point prevalence range of 5-14 percent
for various STD in a rural community-based sample of 1,104 youth has been
observed.
Despite the
fact that use of condoms as a protective measure against STIs was not
investigated in his survey, several factor have however been reported to
discourage use of preventive measure for STIs amongst the youth population
sub-group. Issue like condoms reducing sexual pleasure, financial constraint,
poverty and social norm that perpetuate women subordinate as well as
traditional view of method have been incriminated.
Evidence
from existing literature indicates that whilst basic sexual health information
is reported by young people to be primarily acquired from peers, information on
STDs including HIV/AIDs and pregnancy prevention amongst youth in Nigeria is usually
acquired from the mass media (4,6,9) only a small proportion of students
reported parent as primary source of information on issues of sexual health.
In a related
study on our culture in Nigeria, formally it is observed that a relatively low
proportion of parent were willing to take to their children on sex related
issued in the study further noted that parent were of the opinion that such
issues should be taught at school, indicating that sex related matter are
sensitive and parents shun away from discussing them with their children.
On the other
hand, the quality of information parents pass over to their children is
doubtful and parent themselves worry that they do not have the information to
give to their children.
There are
however, indications that youth people prefer to receive sexual health
information from parent health workers, and teachers whom they also consider as
credible sources of such information.
This study
explored source of information and levels of knowledge on STDs among secondary
school youth in an urban setting so as to equip the relevant organization and
institutions with evidence based information when addressing STDs among youth
in schools.
1.2STATEMENT
OF THE PROBLEM
The study
was a cross sectional pre and post type involving 202 community pharmacists in
the 11 zones of Lagos State. Pre-tested questionnaires were self-administered
to the community pharmacists before and after training on STI and syndromic
management. The findings of this study showed that about 16% of the community
pharmacist had good knowledge of STIs and 53% of them had good knowledge on
syndromic management. After the training intervention, there was an improvement
in their knowledge on STIs and syndromic management on STIs (54 and 70%,
respectively). The assessment of the knowledge of student on STIs shows that
there is need for continuous education in these areas, especially in the early
detection and management of the condition.
1.3PURPOSE
OF THE STUDY
To find out
if factors like source of information and levels of knowledge on STDs among
secondary school youth in an urban setting so as to equip the relevant
organization and institution with evidence based information when addressing
STIs among youth in schools in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos
State.
1.4SPECIFIC
OBJECTIVES
1. To establish the relationship between parent
awareness and level of knowledge on sexually transmitted infection.
2. To establish the relationship between the
quality of information parent pass over to their children.
3. To assess the knowledge of STDs and attitude
towards sexual behavior and STDs among secondary school students.
1.5RESEARCH
QUESTION
a. What is the relationship between parent
awareness and level of knowledge on sexually transmitted infection?
b. What is the relationship between the
qualities of information parent pass over to their children?
c. What is the knowledge level of STD and
attitude toward sexual behaviour and STDs among secondary school students?
1.6RESEARCH
HYPOTHESES
H0: There is
a positive relationship between parent awareness and level of knowledge on
sexually transmitted infection.
H1: There is
positive relationship between the qualities of information parent pass over to
their children.
H2: There is
positive relationship between knowledge levels of STDs among secondary school
children.
1.7SCOPE OF
THE STUDY
The study
was conducted at secondary school in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of
Lagos Nigeria using correlation design and sample of junior secondary school 1,
2 and 3 selected from all the six different classes in secondary school. The
context scope covered factors such as risk and knowledge of the sexually
transmitted infection, socio-economic status and school awareness on how to
address the STIs among youth in schools. The study covered the period of
academic year 2013/2014 session.
1.8SIGNIFICANCE
OF STUDY
A lot of
research has been done on level of knowledge and source of information on
sexually transmitted disease among secondary school students at junior
secondary student at Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State.
The study
will enable the researcher to make recommendation of junior secondary school
policy makers especially these in the information units and Ministry of
Education and Health on what policies and strategies can be employed to
improved level of knowledge and source of information on sexually transmitted
diseases in junior secondary school of learning.
The finding
will help the Junior Secondary Education Board review its methods of admitting
students in order to improve awareness level. The report will also be a source of
reference for other researchers intending to study the level of knowledge and
source of information on sexually transmitted diseases among secondary school
students.
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