Sexual behavior of undergraduate students from a college in southwest of Bahia concerning the use of condom
International Journal of Development Research
Sexual behavior of undergraduate students from a college in southwest of Bahia concerning the use of condom
Received 02nd September, 2018; Received in revised form 20th October, 2018; Accepted 29th November, 2018; Published online 31st December, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Gabriela Carvalho Andrade Aragão et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) have been a major concern in all age groups, especially in adolescents and adults, due to their sexual behavior towards the use of condoms and the increase of contamination. STIs are a public health problem and the unprotected sex act is the main way of transmission. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the perception of the students of a college in the Southwest of Bahia, regarding the use of condoms and their importance. The specific objectives are: to identify the level of information of the students regarding the importance of the use of condoms; to know the main causes for not using condoms; to verify the socio-demographic profile of the students who participated of this research. It was a descriptive research of a quantitative nature, data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire and transferred to Microsoft Excel 2010 XP worksheet and tabulated, later submitted to the analysis through descriptive statistics. After analyzing the data, it was concluded that young people, evenaware of diseases risk, do not use condoms in order to prevent them.
