Risky sexual behavior and its associated factors among daily laborers in Arjo-Didessa sugar factory, Jimma Arjo, Southwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study

Abstract

Background: Ethiopia is one of the sub-Saharan African countries where the young population is densely found. Many studies reveal that the magnitude of risky sexual behavior is high in the youth. The consequences of risky sexual behavior developed during youth life may affect the sexual behavior in adult life, such as increasing the risk of acquiring and transmitting sexually transmitted infections, and predisposing to unwanted pregnancies. Our objective was to assess the risky sexual behaviors among daily laborers in Arjo-Didessa Sugar Factory, Jimma Arjo district, East Wollega zone, Southwest Ethiopia. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 422 randomly selected daily laborers in the Arjo-Didessa sugar factory. For the quantitative and qualitative study, a simple random and purposive sampling technique, respectively, was employed to select the study participants. After data collection, data were checked manually for completeness, and then cleaned and entered into EPI info version 7. Statistical analyses like descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate logistic regression were performed using SPSS version 24 to determine the association between predictors and outcome variables with the help of the calculated frequencies and odds ratio with 95% confidence interval, while a p-value of less than 0.05 was taken as statistically significant. Results: The mean age of study participants was 22.15 and standard deviation of ±2.9 years. Among the study participants who responded to having sex in the past 12 months, 171 (57%) with 95% confidence interval (0.51, 0.63) had ever experienced risky sexual practices. The findings of this study indicated that age from 20 to 24 years (adjusted odds ratio = 3.9, 95% confidence interval: 1.19–12.90), marital status (single) (adjusted odds ratio = 5.5, 95% confidence interval: 1.98–15.70), khat chewing (adjusted odds ratio = 7.12, 95% confidence interval: 2.2–23.4), influence of alcohol for sex (adjusted odds ratio = 3.7, 95% confidence interval: 1.1–12.23), watching pornographic films (adjusted odds ratio = 4.2, 95% confidence interval: 1.5–12.2), and having income less than US$17 (adjusted odds ratio = 0.03, 95% confidence interval: 0.01–0.77) and US$17–US$52 (adjusted odds ratio = 0.23, 95% confidence interval: 0.06–0.85) were significantly associated with risky sexual behavior. Conclusion: This study indicated that there are high-risk sexual practices among the study population. Age, marital status, income level, khat chewing, the influence of alcohol consumption to have sex, and pornographic viewing were found to be predisposing factors of the risky sexual behaviors among daily laborers at the Arjo-Didessa sugar factory. Enhancing sexual education and consulting the targeted groups for the behavioral change is highly advisable, which can reduce the consequences of risky sexual practices that prevailed in the study area.

Risky sexual behaviors and their associated factors within high school students from Collège Saint André in Kigali, Rwanda: An institution-based cross-sectional study

“…These findings are relevant to prior studies that reported that poverty and economic depravity, in particular, are the risk factors for RSB and premarital sexual practices among young people, especially girls (23,33). In agreement with previous studies conducted in SSA countries that indicated students living with their parents and experiencing domestic violence had a greater risk of being engaged in RSB than their counterparts (6,12,34), our study revealed that living without biological parents or experiencing domestic violence are associated with an increased prevalence of RSB. This was because the students who do not live with their genetic parents also do not get sexual and reproductive health education and easily experience a lack of coparenting and parental monitoring.…”

Risky sexual behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS in Andabet district, Ethiopia: Using a model of unsafe sexual behavior

“…Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection continued to be a major public health problem in Ethiopia ( 1 , 2 ). The country was one of the fourth countries that reported the highest number of new HIV infected individuals in Africa ( 3 ), whereby 22,300 people were newly infected and 690,000 were living with HIV/ acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) at the end of 2018 ( 4 ). HIV/AIDS was responsible for an estimated 34% of all young adult death rates in Ethiopia, and 66.3% of all young adult deaths in urban Ethiopia between the ages of 15–49 ( 5 , 6 ).…”

“…In fact, ART decreases patients' viral loads to undetectable levels, leading to the false impression that they are no longer infectious ( 9 , 10 ). However, it is important to remember that risky sexual behavior puts people at risk for a range of sexual-related problems such as contracting STIs, unintended pregnancies, and septic abortions ( 3 , 4 , 8 ). Available studies reported that risky sexual practices expose PLWHA clients to new HIV strains resistant to antiretroviral therapy (ART) ( 5 , 11 ).…”