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Acceptability of Male Circumcision among College Students in Medical Universities in Western China: A Cross-Sectional Study
BACKGROUND: Male circumcision (MC) has been shown to reduce the risk of female to male transmission of HIV. The goal of this survey was to explore MC’s acceptability and the factors associated with MC among college students in medical universities in western China. METHODS: A cross-sectional study w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26390212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135706 |
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author | Jiang, Junjun Su, Jinming Yang, Xiaobo Huang, Mingbo Deng, Wei Huang, Jiegang Liang, Bingyu Qin, Bo Upur, Halmurat Zhong, Chaohui Wang, Qianqiu Wang, Qian Ruan, Yuhua Ye, Li Liang, Hao |
author_facet | Jiang, Junjun Su, Jinming Yang, Xiaobo Huang, Mingbo Deng, Wei Huang, Jiegang Liang, Bingyu Qin, Bo Upur, Halmurat Zhong, Chaohui Wang, Qianqiu Wang, Qian Ruan, Yuhua Ye, Li Liang, Hao |
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description | BACKGROUND: Male circumcision (MC) has been shown to reduce the risk of female to male transmission of HIV. The goal of this survey was to explore MC’s acceptability and the factors associated with MC among college students in medical universities in western China. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out in three provinces in western China (Guangxi, Chongqing and Xinjiang) to assess the acceptability of MC as well as to discover factors associated with the acceptability among college students in medical universities. A total of 1,790 uncircumcised male students from three medical universities were enrolled in this study. In addition, 150 students who had undergone MC were also enrolled in the survey, and they participated in in-depth interviews. RESULTS: Of all the uncircumcised participants (n = 1,790), 55.2% (n = 988) were willing to accept MC. Among those who accepted MC, 67.3% thought that MC could improve their sexual partners’ hygiene, 46.3% believed that HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) could be partially prevented by MC. The multivariable logistic regression indicates that MC’s acceptability was associated with three factors: the redundant foreskin (OR = 10.171, 95% CI = 7.629–13.559), knowing the hazard of having a redundant foreskin (OR = 1.597, 95% CI = 1.097–2.323), and enhancing sexual pleasure (OR = 1.628, 95% CI = 1.312–2.021). The in-depth interviews for subjects who had undergone MC showed that the major reason for having MC was the redundant foreskin (87.3%), followed by the benefits and the fewer complications of having MC done. In addition, most of these participants (65.3%) said that the MC could enhance sexual satisfaction. CONCLUSIONS: MC’s acceptance among college students in medical universities is higher than it is among other populations in western China. An implementation of an MC programme among this population is feasible in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-45770942015-09-25 Acceptability of Male Circumcision among College Students in Medical Universities in Western China: A Cross-Sectional Study Jiang, Junjun Su, Jinming Yang, Xiaobo Huang, Mingbo Deng, Wei Huang, Jiegang Liang, Bingyu Qin, Bo Upur, Halmurat Zhong, Chaohui Wang, Qianqiu Wang, Qian Ruan, Yuhua Ye, Li Liang, Hao PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Male circumcision (MC) has been shown to reduce the risk of female to male transmission of HIV. The goal of this survey was to explore MC’s acceptability and the factors associated with MC among college students in medical universities in western China. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out in three provinces in western China (Guangxi, Chongqing and Xinjiang) to assess the acceptability of MC as well as to discover factors associated with the acceptability among college students in medical universities. A total of 1,790 uncircumcised male students from three medical universities were enrolled in this study. In addition, 150 students who had undergone MC were also enrolled in the survey, and they participated in in-depth interviews. RESULTS: Of all the uncircumcised participants (n = 1,790), 55.2% (n = 988) were willing to accept MC. Among those who accepted MC, 67.3% thought that MC could improve their sexual partners’ hygiene, 46.3% believed that HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) could be partially prevented by MC. The multivariable logistic regression indicates that MC’s acceptability was associated with three factors: the redundant foreskin (OR = 10.171, 95% CI = 7.629–13.559), knowing the hazard of having a redundant foreskin (OR = 1.597, 95% CI = 1.097–2.323), and enhancing sexual pleasure (OR = 1.628, 95% CI = 1.312–2.021). The in-depth interviews for subjects who had undergone MC showed that the major reason for having MC was the redundant foreskin (87.3%), followed by the benefits and the fewer complications of having MC done. In addition, most of these participants (65.3%) said that the MC could enhance sexual satisfaction. CONCLUSIONS: MC’s acceptance among college students in medical universities is higher than it is among other populations in western China. An implementation of an MC programme among this population is feasible in the future. Public Library of Science 2015-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4577094/ /pubmed/26390212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135706 Text en © 2015 Jiang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Jiang, Junjun Su, Jinming Yang, Xiaobo Huang, Mingbo Deng, Wei Huang, Jiegang Liang, Bingyu Qin, Bo Upur, Halmurat Zhong, Chaohui Wang, Qianqiu Wang, Qian Ruan, Yuhua Ye, Li Liang, Hao Acceptability of Male Circumcision among College Students in Medical Universities in Western China: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title | Acceptability of Male Circumcision among College Students in Medical Universities in Western China: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | Acceptability of Male Circumcision among College Students in Medical Universities in Western China: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | Acceptability of Male Circumcision among College Students in Medical Universities in Western China: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Acceptability of Male Circumcision among College Students in Medical Universities in Western China: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | Acceptability of Male Circumcision among College Students in Medical Universities in Western China: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | acceptability of male circumcision among college students in medical universities in western china: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26390212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135706 |
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