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A Clinico-Demographic Profile and Sexual Behaviour Pattern in Attendees of Designated STI/RTI Clinic Having Sexually Transmitted Infections with Special Reference to HIV Seropositivity

INTRODUCTION: The dynamics of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are influenced by sexual behaviour (age of first sexual exposure, number of sexual partner/s, sexual orientation, mode of intercourse, addiction, occupation, correct and consistent use of condom). The presence of the human immunode...

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Autores principales: Datta, Jayanti, Patra, Aparesh C., Ghosh, Arghyaprasun, Roy, Sudipta, Das, Nilay K.
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9644760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36386062
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.ijd_69_22
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author Datta, Jayanti
Patra, Aparesh C.
Ghosh, Arghyaprasun
Roy, Sudipta
Das, Nilay K.
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Roy, Sudipta
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description INTRODUCTION: The dynamics of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are influenced by sexual behaviour (age of first sexual exposure, number of sexual partner/s, sexual orientation, mode of intercourse, addiction, occupation, correct and consistent use of condom). The presence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) influences the clinical pattern of STIs and the course of disease too. OBJECTIVE: Our study was conducted to find the prevalence of STIs among attendees of a designated STI/RTI clinic (DSRC) with the description of clinico-demographic profile and sexual behaviour and association of HIV seropositivity with STIs. METHODS: Ours was an institution-based cross-sectional study conducted at DSRC after obtaining ethics committee approval and consent from patients. Clinical diagnosis, demographic profile and sexual history were obtained after maintaining audio-visual privacy. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Medcalc, version 10.2 was used. RESULTS: Among 167 patients attending DSRC during the study period, 76 having sexual dysfunctions were excluded. The major STIs diagnosed were primary syphilis (6.59%), secondary syphilis (2.2%), herpes genitalis (42.86%), condyloma acuminata (26.37%), molluscum contagiosum (5.49%), genital candidiasis (7.69%), bowenoid papulosis (3.3%), genital scabies (4.4%) and chancroid (1.1%). Sexual orientations were heterosexual (64.83%), lesbian (1.1%), gay (12.1%), bisexual (17.58%) and with an animal partner (4.4%). Among the total study population, 8.8% was rapid plasma reagin (RPR) reactive and 12.1% was Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) reactive. Among the total patients who used condoms (n = 49), only 15 (16.4% of total participants) used condoms correctly and consistently. Peno-vaginal mode of intercourse (n = 78) was found to be most common followed by oro-insertive (n = 42), oro-receptive (n = 34), ano-insertive (n = 24), ano-receptive (n = 17) and digital insertion (n = 20). CONCLUSION: Sexual behaviour influences the disease outcome in patients with reproductive tract infection (RTI)/STI.
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spelling pubmed-96447602022-11-15 A Clinico-Demographic Profile and Sexual Behaviour Pattern in Attendees of Designated STI/RTI Clinic Having Sexually Transmitted Infections with Special Reference to HIV Seropositivity Datta, Jayanti Patra, Aparesh C. Ghosh, Arghyaprasun Roy, Sudipta Das, Nilay K. Indian J Dermatol Original Article INTRODUCTION: The dynamics of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are influenced by sexual behaviour (age of first sexual exposure, number of sexual partner/s, sexual orientation, mode of intercourse, addiction, occupation, correct and consistent use of condom). The presence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) influences the clinical pattern of STIs and the course of disease too. OBJECTIVE: Our study was conducted to find the prevalence of STIs among attendees of a designated STI/RTI clinic (DSRC) with the description of clinico-demographic profile and sexual behaviour and association of HIV seropositivity with STIs. METHODS: Ours was an institution-based cross-sectional study conducted at DSRC after obtaining ethics committee approval and consent from patients. Clinical diagnosis, demographic profile and sexual history were obtained after maintaining audio-visual privacy. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Medcalc, version 10.2 was used. RESULTS: Among 167 patients attending DSRC during the study period, 76 having sexual dysfunctions were excluded. The major STIs diagnosed were primary syphilis (6.59%), secondary syphilis (2.2%), herpes genitalis (42.86%), condyloma acuminata (26.37%), molluscum contagiosum (5.49%), genital candidiasis (7.69%), bowenoid papulosis (3.3%), genital scabies (4.4%) and chancroid (1.1%). Sexual orientations were heterosexual (64.83%), lesbian (1.1%), gay (12.1%), bisexual (17.58%) and with an animal partner (4.4%). Among the total study population, 8.8% was rapid plasma reagin (RPR) reactive and 12.1% was Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) reactive. Among the total patients who used condoms (n = 49), only 15 (16.4% of total participants) used condoms correctly and consistently. Peno-vaginal mode of intercourse (n = 78) was found to be most common followed by oro-insertive (n = 42), oro-receptive (n = 34), ano-insertive (n = 24), ano-receptive (n = 17) and digital insertion (n = 20). CONCLUSION: Sexual behaviour influences the disease outcome in patients with reproductive tract infection (RTI)/STI. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9644760/ /pubmed/36386062 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.ijd_69_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Dermatology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Datta, Jayanti
Patra, Aparesh C.
Ghosh, Arghyaprasun
Roy, Sudipta
Das, Nilay K.
A Clinico-Demographic Profile and Sexual Behaviour Pattern in Attendees of Designated STI/RTI Clinic Having Sexually Transmitted Infections with Special Reference to HIV Seropositivity
title A Clinico-Demographic Profile and Sexual Behaviour Pattern in Attendees of Designated STI/RTI Clinic Having Sexually Transmitted Infections with Special Reference to HIV Seropositivity
title_full A Clinico-Demographic Profile and Sexual Behaviour Pattern in Attendees of Designated STI/RTI Clinic Having Sexually Transmitted Infections with Special Reference to HIV Seropositivity
title_fullStr A Clinico-Demographic Profile and Sexual Behaviour Pattern in Attendees of Designated STI/RTI Clinic Having Sexually Transmitted Infections with Special Reference to HIV Seropositivity
title_full_unstemmed A Clinico-Demographic Profile and Sexual Behaviour Pattern in Attendees of Designated STI/RTI Clinic Having Sexually Transmitted Infections with Special Reference to HIV Seropositivity
title_short A Clinico-Demographic Profile and Sexual Behaviour Pattern in Attendees of Designated STI/RTI Clinic Having Sexually Transmitted Infections with Special Reference to HIV Seropositivity
title_sort clinico-demographic profile and sexual behaviour pattern in attendees of designated sti/rti clinic having sexually transmitted infections with special reference to hiv seropositivity
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9644760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36386062
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.ijd_69_22
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