Department of Community Medicine Rama Medical College, Kanpur ,Uttar Pradesh India - 209217.
Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Raipur Raipur, Chattisgarh.
Afr Health Sci. 2021 Jun;21(2):547-556. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v21i2.9.
Despite implementation of HIV prevention programmes for truck drivers in India, unsafe sex behavior among truck drivers has been documented.
The objective of this study was to assess knowledge about HIV Transmission and modes of prevention, pattern of condom use with high risk partners and explore the practice of unsafe sex and its risk factors among truck drivers.
This exploratory cross-sectional study design was conducted on a recruited convenient sample of 100 truck drivers above 18 years from March to May 2015. Binary logistic regression was used to compute unadjusted odds ratio [95% Confidence Interval] for establishing association of risk factors with unsafe sex.
Overall, only 7% had complete knowledge about HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention. 54% of truck drivers have sex with a high risk partner (commercial sexual worker or men having sex with men) and thirty-eight percent reported unsafe sexual practices due to inconsistent condom use with them. The various risk factors found significantly associated with unsafe sex were mean age of first intercourse (OR= 0.92, 95% CI: 0.75 - 0.97), access to pornography (OR = 4.4, 95% CI: 1.8 - 10.7) and conuming psychoactive substance before sex (OR = 4.06, 95% CI: 1.09 - 15.02).
Socio-demographic, occupational factors, pornography access and consuming psychoactive substances seems to influence the sexual behaviour of truckers.
尽管印度已经实施了针对卡车司机的艾滋病预防计划，但已有文献记录表明卡车司机仍存在不安全的性行为。
本研究旨在评估卡车司机对艾滋病传播和预防方式的了解程度，高危伴侣使用安全套的模式，并探讨不安全性行为的实践及其危险因素。
本探索性横断面研究于 2015 年 3 月至 5 月在招募的 100 名 18 岁以上的卡车司机中进行。采用二元逻辑回归计算未调整的比值比[95%置信区间]，以确定危险因素与不安全性行为之间的关联。
总体而言，只有 7%的人对艾滋病/艾滋病的传播和预防有完整的了解。54%的卡车司机与高危伴侣（性工作者或男男性行为者）发生性行为，38%的人报告由于与他们不一致地使用安全套而存在不安全的性行为。与不安全性行为显著相关的各种危险因素包括首次性行为的平均年龄（OR=0.92，95%CI：0.75-0.97）、接触色情制品（OR=4.4，95%CI：1.8-10.7）和性行为前使用精神活性物质（OR=4.06，95%CI：1.09-15.02）。
社会人口统计学、职业因素、接触色情制品和使用精神活性物质似乎会影响卡车司机的性行为。
