Tropical Population Health Service, Cairns, Queensland.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2010 Jul;34 Suppl 1:S52-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00554.x.
To assess the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth living in far north Queensland in relation to sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and safe sex.
Community consultation followed by local recruitment of a sample of young people who, in a facilitated same gender focus group setting, completed a questionnaire followed by open discussion of the issues in a range of remote locations during 2007.
The remote living Indigenous youth demonstrated lower levels of knowledge in relation to STI and HIV and higher levels of partner change than was demonstrated in the 2002 national secondary school survey. Despite the high rates of bacterial STI in the region, there was an extremely low level of awareness of personal risk in relation to STI and HIV.
There is an urgent need to strengthen school-based sex education and to develop innovative approaches to sexual health promotion in addition to improving clinical sexual health service provision.
评估居住在昆士兰州北部偏远地区的原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民青年在性传播感染、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和安全性行为方面的知识、态度和行为。
在 2007 年，通过社区协商，然后在当地招募了一批年轻人作为样本，他们在同性别的焦点小组环境中完成了一份问卷，然后在一系列偏远地区就相关问题进行了公开讨论。
与 2002 年全国中学调查相比，居住在偏远地区的土著青年在性传播感染和艾滋病毒方面的知识水平较低，而伴侣更换率则较高。尽管该地区的细菌性性传播感染率很高，但人们对个人感染性传播感染和艾滋病毒的风险几乎没有意识。
迫切需要加强学校性教育，并制定创新的性健康促进方法，除了改善临床性健康服务的提供。
