Examining the Association of Sexual Health Knowledge and Sexual Attitude of Filipino College Students
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This study aims to uncover the association between sexual health knowledge and sexual attitude, explore the various factors, and evaluate its significance in today’s generation. There are a total of 328 individuals who participated in this study comprising first year to fourth year level of students from University of Mindanao Digos College. This study is quantitative and employs a descriptive-predictive research design. Using the Shapiro-Wilk test, to test the normality; however, the test did not show if the continuous variables have a normal distribution by assumption. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to test the levels of both variables, results showed that level of sexual health knowledge among participants is moderate and level of sexual attitudes of college students was marked neutral. Where in the results revealed that general sexual attitude has an inversely positive relationship with reproductive health, contraception, condom use, has a positive correlation with HIV/AIDS, but has no relationship with Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD). Moreover, personal sexual attitude has no significant relationship with reproductive health, but has a very weak positive relationship contraception, condom use, has a weak positive relationship with STD and HIV/AIDS.
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