Objective To determine the health seeking behavior and health requirement among female commercial sex workers(CSWs)in ent ertainment businesses in Qingdao, and to provide basis for developing prevention for them.
Methods Manking friedns with STI patients clouding sex workers, their clients and othrers persons who knew entertainment businesse very weell, then went to the places where sex workers worked and provided them the reproductive health information, asked them came in STI clinic for being checked and treated.Self-administr ated anonymous surveys and half-format surveys were carried out, and analyzed with SPSS8.0.
Results 258 questonnaires were collected.4.33% had a regular physical examination at peace time, 19.69% made physical examination after risk sex behavior, 72.05% made physical examination when they felt sick, 7.87% never make a physical examination; the main basis and the most impor tant basis to selecthopital: 59.05% and 38.79% were the level of the medical treatment of a hospital, 43.97% and 21.50% were the charg; 43.38% whose first choice of seeking STI medical service were individual clinic, but only 4.25% were diagnosed in individual clinic.the first two health requirement at present were physical examination and necessary test(70.17%)and health consultation(57.14%).
Conclusion the propaganda of STI prevention know ledge, CSWs.health seeking attitude, medical service of individual clinic and CSWs.correct behavior of seeking medical servic should be improved.
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