Open AccessRisk profiles for sexually transmitted diseases among patients attending the venereal disease clinic at Alexandria Main University Hospital
Author(s) -
Seham Mostafa,
Osama Roshdy
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/1999.5.4.740
Subject(s) - medicine , sexual intercourse , logistic regression , sexually transmitted disease , sex organ , disease , demography , multivariate analysis , gynecology , pediatrics , family medicine , population , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , sociology , biology , genetics
Risk factors for sexually transmitted diseases [STDs] were assessed among 54 male and 36 female patients attending a venereal disease clinic. Sociodemographic data and information on sexual behaviour/STD history were collected. Patients were examined and specimens taken for laboratory diagnosis. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that the significant predictors of genital infections among the male patients were: being unmarried, having multiple sexual partners, exposure to a symptomatic sexual partner, high frequency of intercourse per week, having repeated episode[s]of STDs and practising coitus interfemoris. In the female patients, exposure to a symptomatic sexual partner and high frequency of intercourse per week were the only significant predictors