Knowledge and Attitudes of Cypriots Students on Their Sexual Life

Background: This study is aimed towards women’s knowledge and attitudes towards menopause as menopause brings multifaceted impact including psychomotor, vasomotor and cardiovascular changes on women`s health.Methods: The population of interest consisted of 150 qualified teachers of age group 40 to 60 years and above from different colleges and schools of Bhopal city. The data was collected using predesigned questionnaire with inform consent and responses were analysed using simple percentages.Results: In this study, mean age of menopause is 48.4 years and 92% of women had knowledge about menopause out of them 84% of women consider it to be a natural process. Working capacity of 66% of the women was affected while sexual life is affected in 56% of the women. 88% of the women were aware of hormonal replacement therapy but only 4.6% of women were taking HRT due to concerns regarding side effects.Conclusions: Most of the women in our study are aware of menopause and its symptoms but they are not following healthy life style modifications. Increased awareness is required to prepare women for menopause.

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Sexual life assessment in individuals with different kind of relationships

Revista Wímb Lu ◽

10.15517/wl.v15i1.42058 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 49-71

Author(s):

Kumrije Gagica ◽

Hajrullah Fejza

Keyword(s):

Correlation Analysis ◽

Life Assessment ◽

Sexual Life ◽

Age Group ◽

Regular Partner ◽

Knowledge And Attitudes ◽

Spss Software ◽

Student’S T

Sexual life and intimacy mainly is based by one’s personality, knowledge and attitudes toward others. Someone’s personality can tell us how they approach all sorts of different things in life, including sexual life. To audit sexual life it is necessary to assess it through asking people who have a regular partner or whoever they are having sex, or their last relationship. The study included 500 subjects from Albania and Kosovo. The questionnaire was delivered through Survey planet app. The audit was opened during June 2019. Questionnaire contains 15 questions with A, B, C alternatives. The data were analyzed through SPSS software. Using the program, a series of Student’s t-tests was conducted for independent samples and correlation analysis with Pearson’s coefficient. The answers were categorized in three categories: mostly A, mostly B and mostly C. Female respondents were 54.6 % whereas 45.4% male. The majority, 78% ranked in age group 21-50 years old, from whom 71.4 % were married. Mostly A score frequently found at 53.60 % of participants which sounds like they and their partners have a really healthy and satisfying sex life. “Mostly B” answered by 32% of participants which means that they were mostly satisfied with their sex life, and it seems like sometimes they can feel a little disconnected. Mostly C score is most commonly found at 14.40% of participants. This study shows that more than a half of the participants have a satisfying and a healthy sexual life.

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Knowledge and attitudes of nursing students concerning HPV vaccinationHemşirelik bölümü öğrencilerinin HPV aşısına yönelik bilgi ve tutumları

Journal of Human Sciences ◽

10.14687/jhs.v16i1.5511 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Eda Cangöl ◽

Seda Sögüt ◽

Hatice Kahyaoğlu Süt ◽

Burcu Küçükkaya

Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Hpv Vaccine ◽

Hpv Vaccination ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

English Summary ◽

Sexual Life ◽

Chi Square ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Knowledge And Attitudes

Aim: The present study aims to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of the nursing students concerning Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Method: This cross-sectional study was carried out over 810 undergraduate students studying in the departments of nursing at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (n=404) and Trakya University (n=406) between November 2017 and March 2018. The data were collected with an information form developed by the researchers based on the available literature. They were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Chi-square test by using SPSS 21.0, a statistical software program.Findings: The results concerning the knowledge of the nursing students on HPV vaccine showed that 65.8% heard of HPV vaccine, 51.6% had no prior knowledge on HPV vaccine, 93.7% wished to be informed about HPV vaccine, 40.4% thought that HPV vaccine should be administered to any person with an active sexual life, 68.6% and 73.1% thought that HPV vaccine was effective in the prevention of genital warts and cervical cancer, respectively. The results on the participants’ attitudes towards HPV vaccine revealed that 96.5% of the participants did not receive HPV vaccine while 60.1% wished to receive it.Conclusion: Most of the nursing students had no knowledge of HPV vaccine and very few received it. Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetAmaç: Bu çalışmada, hemşirelik bölümü öğrencilerinin HPV aşısına yönelik bilgi ve tutumlarını incelemek amaçlanmıştır.Yöntem: Kesitsel tipteki bu çalışma, Kasım 2017-Mart 2018 tarihleri arasında Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart (n=404) ve Trakya (n=406) Üniversitesi hemşirelik bölümünde eğitim alan n=810 öğrenci ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırma verileri araştırmacılar tarafından literatür incelenerek hazırlanan bir bilgi formu ile toplanmıştır. Veriler tanımlayıcı istatistik ve Ki-kare testi yöntemleri ile SPSS 21.0 istatistiksel paket programı kullanılarak değerlendirilmiştir.Bulgular: Hemşirelik öğrencilerinin HPV aşısı ile ilgili bilgi durumlarına bakıldığında; %65.8’inin HPV aşısını duyduğu, %51.6’sının HPV aşısı hakkında daha önce bilgi almadığı, %93.7’sinin HPV aşısı hakkında bilgi almak istediği, %40.4’ü HPV aşısının cinsel aktif olan herkese yapılması gerektiğini düşündüğü, %68.6’sının HPV aşısının genital siğilleri ve %73.1’inin serviks kanserini önlemede etkili olduğunu düşündüğü belirlenmiştir. Öğrencilerin HPV aşısı ile ilgili tutumları incelendiğinde; %96.5’inin HPV aşısını yaptırmadığı, %60.1’inin HPV aşısı yaptırmak istediği saptanmıştır.Sonuç: Hemşirelik öğrencilerinin çoğunluğu HPV aşısı hakkında bilgi almamış olup çok az sayıda öğrenci HPV aşısını yaptırmıştır.

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