Kaptanoğlu Asli Feride, Süer Kaya, Diktaş Hüsrev, Hinçal Evren
Department of Dermatology, Near East University Hospital, Nicosia, North Cyprus.
Cent Eur J Public Health. 2013 Mar;21(1):54-8. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a3808.
The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is increasing among adolescents all around the world. There may be differences in knowledge and attitudes among different cultures and ethnic populations. The aim of this study is to determine knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Turkish Cypriot adolescents related to STDs.
To assess knowledge of STDs, attitudes towards sexual behaviour and STDs among the secondary school students.
A cross sectional study, with a sample size of 423 students, was conducted by using a semi-structured questionnaire. Simple random sampling method was applied during the selection of the sample.
The mean age of all participants was 15.61 +/- 1.22, 211 (49.88%) of them were male and 212 (50.12%) female. The majority of students (91.25%) stated that they had some knowledge about STDs; hovewer, 8.75% of the participants did not have any knowledge at all. Most of them, 42.32% described school as a source of information on STDs, nonetheless, only 7.57% of the group cited health care professionals as the information source. The majority of students (97.64%) has never been treated for STDs. Among 423 applicants, 93.14% indicated that they would have appreciated information about STDs during the high school years.
There is a general understanding that the students are willing to participate and are in need of seminars that will be held about STDs during high school attendance. Furthermore, awareness raising educational events on this matter should be reviewed and revised in order to come up with more powerful ways of fighting against STDs transmission in this young population group of Turkish Cypriot (TC) community.
全球青少年性传播疾病（STD）的发病率正在上升。不同文化和种族人群在知识和态度方面可能存在差异。本研究的目的是确定土族塞浦路斯青少年对性传播疾病的知识、态度和行为。
评估中学生对性传播疾病的知识、对性行为和性传播疾病的态度。
采用半结构化问卷进行横断面研究，样本量为423名学生。样本选择过程中采用简单随机抽样方法。
所有参与者的平均年龄为15.61±1.22岁，其中211名（49.88%）为男性，212名（50.12%）为女性。大多数学生（91.25%）表示他们对性传播疾病有一定了解；然而，8.75%的参与者完全没有任何了解。他们中的大多数人，42.32%将学校描述为性传播疾病信息的来源，尽管如此，只有7.57%的人将医疗保健专业人员作为信息来源。大多数学生（97.64%）从未接受过性传播疾病治疗。在423名申请者中，93.14%表示他们在高中期间会希望获得有关性传播疾病的信息。
人们普遍认为，学生愿意参与并需要在高中期间举办有关性传播疾病的研讨会。此外，应审查和修订关于此事的提高认识教育活动，以便找到更有效的方法来对抗土族塞浦路斯（TC）社区这一年轻人群中性传播疾病的传播。
