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Article: Teen girls lack knowledge of sexually transmitted infections.(Behavioral Pediatrics)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. -- Only one in five female adolescents correctly identified nine common sexually transmitted infections or correctly answered seven true-false questions about their sequelae in a study of 259 subjects.
Questionnaires completed by patients aged 12-20 years at an outpatient clinic showed that most of them did not recognize hepatitis B or C as sexually transmitted infections (see graphic), and 46% did not know that symptoms of sexually transmitted infections are less likely to appear in males than in females. Almost half (45%) thought that birth control methods besides condoms could prevent sexually transmitted infection, and a majority of the ...