The determinants of sexually transmitted infections among reproductive age women in St. Petersburg, Estonia and Finland

Regushevskaya, Elena; Dubikaytis, Tatiana; Laanpere, Made; Nikula, Minna; Kuznetsova, Olga Yu.; Karro, H; Haavio‐Mannila, Elina; Hemminki, Elina

doi:10.1007/s00038-010-0161-4

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“…Similarly, other studies have shown sexually transmitted diseases to be higher in women who had their first sexual intercourse aged under 18 years. 21 We did not find that syphilis was associated with our monetary indicator of poverty; nor was it associated with household poverty according to the modified basic necessities index. This observation is different from a study in a Brazilian population which found congenital syphilis to be associated with a monthly per capita income of below US$ 30.…”

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confidence: 60%

Clinical and socioeconomic determinants of congenital syphilis in Posadas, Argentina

Parker

Deschutter

Bornay-Llinares

et al. 2012

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 60%

Clinical and socioeconomic determinants of congenital syphilis in Posadas, Argentina

Parker

Deschutter

Bornay-Llinares

et al. 2012

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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“…The odds of self-reported syndromes of STIs among reproductive age women having educational level of higher education and above were higher than women of a lower Education level. This is consistent with studies in Estonia, and Finland [ 34 ]. This might be due to the fact educated women are more likely to report their reproductive health status than uneducated women.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Self-reporting syndromes of STIs was influenced by different factors such as; age, marital status, educational status, ever had termination of pregnancy, and risky sexual behaviors are associated with self-reported STIs. This is similar to the findings in Swaziland, Nepal, Uganda, India, and Petersburg Estonia [24,28,29,30,31,34].…”

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confidence: 90%

Self-reported syndromes of sexually transmitted infections and its associated factors among reproductive (15–49 years) age women in Ethiopia

Birhane

Simegn

Bayih

et al. 2021

Heliyon

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Background: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are among the most important causes of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. It remains a significant public health problem and disproportionately affects women posing a large public health burden in low and middle-income countries. However, there is little information on the magnitude of self-reported syndromes of STIs among reproductive-age women in Ethiopia. Aim: This study aimed to determine the magnitude of self-reported syndromes of sexual transmitted infections and its associated factors among women of reproductive age in Ethiopia. Methods: The study was based on the data from the Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey of 2016. The data on the status of self-reported STIs were extracted from the individual women dataset, and a total of 15,683 reproductive-age women were involved in the study. Since the data has a hierarchical and cluster nature sampling weight was applied for all analysis procedures to account for complex survey design. Rao-scot chi-square test that adjusts for complex sample design was used to examine the association of outcome and independent variables. In, multivariable analysis, the level of statistical significance was declared at P-value 0.05. Findings and conclusions: The magnitude of self-reported STIs was 3.0 % (95% CI: 2.92-3.08). Among self-reported syndromes of STIs only, 33.3 % (158) seek care for sexually transmitted infections. Age (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR ¼ 2.15; 95%CI:1.4, 3.4)), marital status (AOR ¼ 1.72; 95%CI:1.02, 2.90), women attending higher education and above (AOR ¼ 2.67; 95%CI:1.57,4.57), history of termination of pregnancy (AOR ¼ 2.85; 95% CI:2.0,4.08), and risky sexual behavior (AOR ¼ 1.72; 95%CI:1.02,2.90) were found to be associated with selfreported syndrome of sexually transmitted infections. The magnitude of self-reported syndromes of STI and health care seeking behaviors among reproductive-age women was found low. Therefore, the government should enhance the awareness of women for sexually transmitted syndromes, and increase accessibility of STI services. Moreover, qualitative studies should be done to identify the demand, supply, and barriers related to STI among women of reproductive age women in Ethiopia.

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“…Each participant was asked to report his or her age of first sexual intercourse. Consensus on what age is considered to represent an early debut has not been reached in the literature, with various studies using different ages as the cut-off, such as 14 years old or younger [71], 16 years old or younger [72][73], or even 17/18 years old or younger [74]. Depending on the age used, the percentage of early initiators range from 17% [72] to 44% [73].…”

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Exposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is related to risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood

Lin¹,

Liu

Chen

2020

PLoS ONE

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BackgroundSexually explicit media exposure during early adolescence has been found to be associated with risky sexual behavior. However, previous study suffered from methodological issue, such as selection bias. Furthermore, little is known about the effect of multi-modality sexually explicit media exposure on risky sexual behavior, and how this relationship can be applied to non-western societies.

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The determinants of sexually transmitted infections among reproductive age women in St. Petersburg, Estonia and Finland

Abstract: Risky behaviour predicts STIs, but does not explain the varying rates of STIs between areas.

Cited by 6 publications

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Clinical and socioeconomic determinants of congenital syphilis in Posadas, Argentina

Clinical and socioeconomic determinants of congenital syphilis in Posadas, Argentina

Self-reported syndromes of sexually transmitted infections and its associated factors among reproductive (15–49 years) age women in Ethiopia

Exposure to sexually explicit media in early adolescence is related to risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood

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