Experimental educational interventions for AIDS prevention among Northern Thai single migratory factory workers.

It showed that young single women were sexually active and engaged in a variety of sexual activities including multiple partnerships and lesbian relationships and both young men and women expressed a lack of communication on sexual matters with the opposite sex especially during the early stages of a relationship.

Abstract

This study was to determine the knowledge attitudes beliefs behavioral intentions and behavior related to sex sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV/AIDS of northern Thai single never-married female adolescents who have migrated to Chiang Mai and work in export-oriented garment factories and compare non-formal educational interventions to discover which are more likely to positively influence the above mentioned factors in relation to the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other STDs. It showed that young single women were sexually active and engaged in a variety of sexual activities including multiple partnerships and lesbian relationships. The study population reported that they did not use condoms and viewed them as inappropriate in a love relationship. However they did feel responsible for contraception and used methods other than condoms to avoid pregnancy. Both young men and women expressed a lack of communication on sexual matters with the opposite sex especially during the early stages of a relationship.