Patterns of Unsafe Sexual Attitudes and Practices Among Students of Tertiary Institutions.
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study was to find out the patterns of unsafe sexual attitude and practices among students of tertiary institutions in Nasarawa state.
To achieve the purpose of this study, eight specific objectives with corresponding research questions were posed and eight null hypotheses postulated.
The descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population for the study was 27,879 students while multi-stage sampling procedure was used to draw a sample of 696 students for the study.
The instruments used for the data collection was the 31 item researcher design questionnaire called unsafe sexual attitudes and practices questionnaire (PUSAPQ) and the focus group discussion guide(FGD).
The research questions were answered using means and percentages while null hypotheses were tested using the t-Tests, ANOVA and Chi-square statistics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page i
Approval Page ii
Dedication iii
Certification iv
Acknowledgements v
Table of Contents vi
List of Tables ix
List of acronyms xi
Abstract
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
Background to the Study 1
Statement of the Problem 9
Purpose of the Study 10
Research questions 11
Hypotheses 12
Significance of the study 12
Scope of the Study 13
CHAPTER TWO: Review of Related Literature
Conceptual Framework 15
Unsafe sex 15
Unsafe sexual Attitudes and Practices 17
Patterns of Unsafe Sexual Attitudes and Practices 22
Determinants of Unsafe Sexual Attitudes and Practices 24
Diagrammatic Representation of Conceptual Framework 28
Theoretical framework 28
Problem Behavior Theory:(PBT) (Visser 2003) 28
The Theory Of Planned Behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 2001) 29
Social Cognitive Theory. (SCT) Bandura (1977) 31
Diagrammatic Representation of Theoretical Framework 32
CHAPTER THREE: Methods
Research Design 45
Area of Study 45
Population for the Study 45
Sample and Sampling Techniques 45
Instruments for Data Collection 46
Validity of Instruments 46
Reliability of Instruments 47
Method of Data Collection 47
Method of Data Analysis 48
CHAPTER FOUR: Results and Discussion
Results 49
Summary of Major Findings 85
Discussion of Findings 86
Unsafe sexual attitude of students in tertiary institutions 87
Unsafe sexual practices of students in tertiary institutions 87
Demographic pattern of unsafe sexual attitude 88
Demographic pattern of unsafe sexual practices 90
Spatial pattern of unsafe sexual attitude and practices 92
Temporal pattern of unsafe sexual attitudes and practices 93
CHAPTER FIVE: Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations
Summary 95
Conclusion 97
Recommendation 98
Suggestion 99
Reference 100
Appendix A 108
Appendix B 109
Appendix C 113
Appendix D 114
INTRODUCTION
The globe is awash with expressions of increasing concerns about a world under threat of diseases, especially, communicable diseases of sexuality through unsafe sexual attitudes and practices.
The continued decimation of the population through afflictions and spread of diseases appears to compete favourably with a continued flow of natural disasters and wars (Campbell, 2009).
According to Park (2010) unsafe sexual attitudes and practices have reportedly reached alarming prevalence in several countries especially sub-Sahara Africa.
Globally, excluding HIV and AIDS there are about 333 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) per year (Afsar, Mahmood, Kaddir, Barrey Bilgramir 2005) United Population Fund UNPF, (2007) reported that young people worldwide are at the centre of HIV and AIDS epidemic in terms of rate of infection and vulnerability.
Out of about 1.5 billion people worldwide, 11.8 million were estimated to be living with HIV and AIDS and everyday between 5,000-6000 young people aged 15-24 years contract HIV.
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