Magnitude of Risky Sexual Behaviors and its Effect on Sexually Transmitted Diseases among Undergraduate Students of Addis Ababa University in 2016, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Belete, Mahlet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Sexually transmitted diseases are among the most common illnesses in the world and have far reaching health, social and economic consequences. University students are young adults and vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases due to exposure risky IX sexual behaviors such as having multiple sexual partners, inconsistent condom use, having sex with commercial sexual partners and casual sexual partners, having sex after alcohol and having sex for gift or benefit. It is fundamental to understand the magnitude of risky sexual behaviors and its effect on sexually transmitted diseases among students of Addis Ababa University in wider perspectives so that the results could be used to take appropriate measures by different stakeholders involved in reproductive health programs. Objective: To assess the magnitude of risky sexual behaviors and its effect on sexually transmitted diseases among undergraduate students of Addis Ababa University in 2016 Methodology: The study was conducted in all 10 colleges of Addis Ababa University on undergraduate students. A cross sectional study was used on 422 undergraduate students from March 2016 to April 2016.Multi- stage cluster sampling was used to select the colleges. The sample size of the study subjects was calculated by proportion to population size from each college. Systematic random sampling technique was applied to select the study participants. Data was entered and cleaned using EPI Info version 3.5.3 statistical software and exported to SPSS 21 for analysis. Odds ratio with 95% confidence interval was estimated to identify predictors of self-reported sexually transmitted diseases and risky sexual behaviours. Result: A total of 422 undergraduate students were enrolled in the study with response rate of92% where 245 (63 %) were males. The median of age distribution was 21 years. The accommodation of 251 (64.7%) students was in the university's dormitory. One hundred fifty-eight students were sexually active in the past 12 months. Among the sexually active students 92(58.2%) had more than one sexual partner in the past 12 months and forty-two (23.3%) never used condom in their lives. The students who reported experiencing sexually transmitted diseases were 18%(95%CI; 14.2, 22.2).The Multivariate analysis indicated that the students who had multiple sexual partners and inconsistent condom users were 2.69 and 2.38 times likely to develop sexually transmitted diseases respectively. Conclusion: There is high burden of STDs among undergraduate students of AAU. Magnitude of STDs was affected by having multiple sexual partners and inconsistent condom use among undergraduate students of AAU. Students experienced risky sexual behaviors such as having multiple sexual partners, inconstant condom use, having sex for benefit/gift, having casual sexual partners and having sex with commercial sex workers. Predisposing factors such as peer pressure, watching pornography Medias, going to nightclubs and having depression affected the magnitude of risky sexual behaviors among the study subjects.