Knowledge on safe sex practices among undergraduate university students at Chuka University, Kenya
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Abstract
Background: The youth and adolescents constitute a quarter of the sexually active population and they represent almost half of all new STI cases globally. However, there is limited current data on knowledge of safe sex practices among Kenyan university students. This study sought to assess knowledge on safe sex practices among undergraduate students. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study design was adopted for this study. A self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain data from undergraduate students. Simple random sampling method was used to sample the participants. Data were analysed using the statistical package of social sciences (SPSS) v.24. Results: The mean age of the participants was 21.37 (±1.75) years. There were more males (56.5%) than females. Majority of participants (63.1%) came from rural areas and more than three-quarters were Christians (88.6%). Majority were single (83.8%) and most were residing in private hostels (71.9%). The mean knowledge score was 68.15 (±21.59)%. Significant predictors of knowledge level were the place of birth and place of residence; p=0.027, AOR=1.975 and p=0.026, AOR=0.477 respectively. Conclusions: The findings indicated that the University students had high knowledge of safe sex practices which was associated with their place of birth and residence. There is a need to assess if the high knowledge translates to practice among the students. The institutions of higher learning should continue to teach age-appropriate safe sexual practices to the students such as sexually transmitted infections, contraception and other related topics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".