Knowledge and preventive practice on Sexually Transmitted Infections among first year students in Nursing Colleges of Bhutan

Introduction: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are increasing globally and became the public health concerns particularly in adolescents. The adolescents prone to get STI’s due involvements of unhealthy behavior. However, having deficiency identifying signs symptoms STIs, could lead complications such as infertility, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). No studies have been conducted among nursing students regarding knowledge preventive practice on STI. Therefore, this study was aimed at determining information about college students’ STIs. Methods: A cross-sectional first-year four colleges Bhutan. Purposive sampling used. Self-administrative questionnaire including demographic characteristics, STI given. Results: total 372 first year from age group 18-22 years, participated with 100% response rate. mean 20.08 (±SD-1.83) years. Teacher (62.26%) main source prevention. Majority (83%) knew that most common methods contraception (barrier) condom. Half (50.27%) had fair/intermediate level knowledge, while less than 35% poor knowledge. Conclusions: Students fair found condom known an effective barrier contraception.