The impact of level of education religiosity, religion and church attendance on number of woman's sexual partners
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2001-04-12
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Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Abstract
A correlation type of design used to examine if level of education, religion, religiosity and frequency of attending religious service influence or determine a woman's number of sexual partners. HIV/AIDS is becoming pandemic all over the world including
Malawi . As of now many women are becoming infected with the virus at higher rates than men. This research is very important because it will help to identify which groups of women need more intervention so as to reduce women's number of partners as one way of AIDS prevention and control in Malawi This research was conducted in two cities -Lilongwe and Blantyre. 263 women were recruited as subjects ; students from Kamuzu college of Nursing , student teachers from Teachers Training College [TTC], clerical women from banks were selected , The variables of the study were level of education , church attendance religiosity, religion and number of partners. Independent variables were level of education religion religiosity and frequency in attending religious services while dependent variable was number of sexual partners .
Data was collected using a questionnaire. This questionnaire was distributed to
every participant in this research. Data was analysed through tables, means percentages and chi- square. On correlation design, it was very difficult to
establish the causal inference and it was also difficult to establish generalisability
to all women of Malawi since this study only included Blantyre and Lilongwe.
However , potential threats of attrition maturation did not affect the study . This is
so because all the subjects were studied only at once and in addition retention of
subjects was be high because everybody was given a chance to join or not these
subjects were found in their own environment. The other strength was that this larger sample of five hundred women helped to establish the relationship.
The overall results have shown that there is a statistical significance between level of
education and number of sexual partners being those who are educated most are having
many sexual partners . Church attendance have also shown that there is a relationship
since those who are attending weekly or twice a week have no multiple partners.
However ,there is no any statistical significance between religiosity between religion
religiosity and number of sexual partners.