Determinants Associated with Syphilis among the Youth in Health Centre Wamena City, Jayawijaya Regency

Abstract

Sexually transmitted infections (STI) cases in province of Papua in 2013 were 1,213 cases, then in 2014 the number of visits to STI services were 19 945 cases with the number of STI patients of 10,995 cases and the number of syphilis patients were 2,150 cases, while cases of syphilis in adolescent at the health center Wamena City District Jayawijaya in 2015 were 91 cases. The method used in this research is quantitative correlation type with cross sectional study. The population in this study were all teenagers who visited the health center Jayawijaya Wamena town, with 578 teenagers. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling, obtained a sample of 236 respondents. The data collection is done by distributing questionnaires to the respondents. Analysis of the data in this study is analysis of univariate and bivariate. The results showed a correlation between free association with syphilis in adolescence (p-value = 0.000), there is a relationship between the use of condoms with syphilis in adolescence (p-value = 0.000), there is no relationship between early sex education with disease syphilis in adolescence (p-value = 0.151), there is no relationship between the supervision of parents with syphilis in adolescence (p-value = 0.265), there is a relationship between personal hygiene with syphilis in adolescence (p-value = 0.001 ), there is no relationship between the mass media with syphilis in adolescence (p-value = 0.569).