Purpose: The knowledge, attitudes and practice among inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu Division was examined to provide objective information on sparganosis infection. Hence, the study was carried out. Methods: The study was conducted among the inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu Division, Monduli District, Tanzania from January to April 2012. Inhabitants were informed about the objective of the study and invite...

BACKGROUND China is realizing increases in women engaged in premarital sex and multiple sex partner behavior. Our aim was to examine prevalence and determinants of multiple sex partner behavior among female undergraduates in China. METHODS Anonymously completed questionnaires were received from 4,769 unmarried female undergraduates, recruited using randomized cluster sampling by type of unive...

Persistent differences between men and women in regard to their public policy attitudes have been found by various researchers. In this article, a state-wide survey Pennsylvania is used compare of the state with those at national level. Using these data, three hypotheses frequently offered explain attitude are subjected evaluation. The major finding that male-female may be related both sex-role...

This paper uses a latent factor model to create an index to measure how progressive (liberal, non-patriarchal) women's attitudes towards gender are in India. It then assesses the e ect of progressivity on the sex of the rst child and on the duration from marriage to rst birth in Delhi. In contrast to what previous literature have found by pooling data for the whole of India, Delhi has an unnatu...

Finland is probably the only country where sex education has been studied in two consecutive national surveys, in 1996 and 2006 directed at biology and health education teachers, and in 2000 and 2006 by measuring adolescents’ sexual knowledge. In 2006, responses from teachers and students could be combined for 339 schools. The most important educational objectives of sex education in the 2000s ...

Attitudes toward abortion were predicted by age, sex, and religiosity but not personality in a sample of 99 college students.

Abstract We investigated the attitudes of 11,410 candidates in Finnish 2017 municipal elections who had responded to a Voting Advice Application. Women were, both terms economic and social attitudes, more progressive than men. Building on gender diagnosticity approach, we used responses attitude items construct dimensional measure political genderedness; i.e., femininity–masculinity individual’...

The Netherlands is known for its progressive attitude towards dealing with sexuality. Sex education has a permanent place in the educational system. Dutch legislation provides schools opportunity to teach subject their own way, line school’s ethos/identity. In this article I answer question: What are views and attitudes of RE teachers regarding sexuality teaching practice Islamic primary school...

An overview discusses feminist analyses of oppression, attitudes toward rape victims, and previously studied predictors of individuals' attitudes toward rape victims. To better understand such attitudes, this meta-analysis examines the moderating influences of various rape victim, perpetrator, and crime characteristics' rape myth consistency on gender differences in individuals' perceptions of ...

BACKGROUND To analyse knowledge, attitudes and sexual practices on HIV/AIDS, and estimate HIV prevalence among residents of Sucre (Bolivia). METHODOLOGY Population-based survey of residents aged 15-49 randomly selected during 2008/2009. Blood samples were collected on Whatman-filter paper and tested with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Knowledge on HIV/AIDS, sexual risk practices and discr...