| Literature DB >> 2486984 |
A C Urmil, P K Dutta, K K Sharma, S S Ganguly.
Abstract
A study of 250 male teenager STD cases was carried out to determine the association between certain medicosocial factors e.g. age, type of infection, educational status, source of infection, knowledge about mode of acquiring infection and prophylaxis etc. Salient findings of the study such as gonorrhoea being the commonest type of STD, curiosity being the main reason for first sexual exposure and prostitutes being the major source of infection have been highlighted in this communication.Entities:
Keywords: Adolescents; Adolescents, Male; Age Factors; Asia; Behavior; Chlamydia; Communication; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Diseases; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Employment Status; Gonorrhea; India; Infections; Knowledge; Misinformation; Population; Population Characteristics; Premarital Sex Behavior; Prostitutes; Psychology; Psychology, Social; Reproductive Tract Infections; Research Methodology; Sampling Studies; Sex Behavior; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Social Sciences; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southern Asia; Studies; Surveys; Syphilis; Youth
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Year: 1989 PMID： 2486984
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Public Health ISSN： 0019-557X