Factors Related with Syphilis Prevention Behavior in Vocational Students

Abstract

Students are the group that needs surveillance for syphilis because they are reproductive age group, curiosity, and environments that may increase the risk of behavior for syphilis infection. This study was a cross - sectional analytical study. The objective of research was to study the preventive behavior of syphilis and to examine the factors related to the syphilis prevention behaviors of vocational students. The samples were 320 vocational students. The research instruments were questionnaire including a general information questionnaire, family relationship questionnaire, reading ability test, health literacy test about syphilis, awareness test about syphilis, and self-control questionnaire. The reliability of tool was 0.73. Data analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The correlation was analyzed by chi-square and Spearman Rank correlation at the statistical significance level of 0.05.

The results found that vocational students had preventive behavior for syphilis at the low level. Factors related to the preventive behavior for syphilis of vocational students were gender, learning achievement, family relationships, Health Literacy, perception of violence, and the perception of benefits in preventing syphilis significant at the 0.05 level. The results can be used as guidelines for educational institutions for promoting syphilis prevention behavior and prevention of sexually transmitted infections in vocational students.