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Awareness of sexually transmitted diseases and their prevention among women of reproductive age
VEBEROVÁ, Veronika
The thesis deals with the topic of sexually transmitted diseases. It is divided into a theoretical and a practical parts. The theoretical part describes particular sexually transmitted diseases, their impact on the fetus and new-born babies and prevention too. As well as that, The Register of sexually transmitted diseases and the role of a midwife, as far as education is concerned, are also mentioned in this part. Two goals were set for the practical part of the thesis. The first was to chart the rate of fertile-age women´s awareness of sexually transmitted diseases and their prevention. The second goal was to chart fertile-age women´s awareness of the impact of sexually transmitted diseases on the fetus and new-born babies. The thesis stated 3 hypotheses: H1: Women of higher age are better informed about sexually transmitted diseases than younger women. H2: Women of higher age are better informed about the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases than younger women. H3: Women of higher age are better informed about the impact of sexually transmitted diseases on the fetus and new-born babies than younger women. The goals were achieved with the help of a quantitative research carried out in the form of an online questionnaire, which I created on my own. The questionnaire contained 35 closed and a half-closed questions. The questionnaire was designed in the form of a test. The correct answer got 1 point, the wrong answer or "I don´t know" answer got 0 points. The final assessment of the questionnaire was carried out with Kruskal-Wallis statistical test. The research cohort consisted of 245 fertile-age women, who were divided into 3 age groups: 15-26 years old, 27-35 years old, 36-49 years old. The questionnaire was sent to groups uniting teenagers, pregnant women, and mothers on the social network Facebook. Most respondents belonged to the age group 27-35. The research showed that there is no relation between the age of the respondents to their knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases, prevention and the impact on the fetus and new-born babies. No hypothesis were proved. Neither relation to the highest achieved education was proved. Higher rate of awareness was identified with the women whose education or jobs are related to health care. On the contrary, the respondents lacking educational or professional experience with the health care system reached worse results on average. The research proved that women are insufficiently informed about sexually transmitted diseases, in general. Therefore, it is vitally important to focus on consistent education not only at schools, but in GP surgeries as well.
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