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dc.contributor.authorLobo, Roanna
dc.contributor.authorRayson, J.
dc.contributor.authorHallett, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorMak, D.B.
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-07T10:38:24Z
dc.date.available2024-12-07T10:38:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationLobo, R. and Rayson, J. and Hallett, J. and Mak, D.B. 2020. Risk perceptions, misperceptions and sexual behaviours among young heterosexual people with gonorrhoea in Perth, Western Australia. Communicable diseases intelligence (2018). 44.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/96529
dc.identifier.doi10.33321/cdi.2020.44.41
dc.description.abstract

Background: Notification rates of gonorrhoea in Australia for heterosexual young adults rose by 63% between 2012 and 2016. In Western Australian major cities, there was a 612% increase among non-Aboriginal females and a 358% increase in non-Aboriginal males in the ten-year period 2007-2016. A qualitative public health investigation was initiated to inform appropriate action. Methods: Eighteen semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with non-Aboriginal heterosexual young adults aged 18-34 years living in Perth, Western Australia, who had recently been notified to the Department of Health with gonorrhoea, to explore the context of their sexual interactions and lifestyles which could have predisposed them to contracting gonorrhoea. Data were thematically analysed. Results: Common themes were having several casual sexual partners, limited communication between sexual partners about condom use or sexual history prior to engaging in sexual activity, inconsistent condom use, normalisation of some sexually transmissible infections amongst young people, and poor understandings and assessment of sexually transmissible infection risk. Conclusion: The findings support public health interventions that focus on communication between sexual partners and shifting of risk perceptions in sexual health education programs, ensuring accessibility of quality sexual health information, increasing condom accessibility and acceptability, and on strategies for addressing misperceptions of young people in relation to sexually transmitted infections.

dc.languageeng
dc.subjectAustralia
dc.subjectgonorrhoea
dc.subjectheterosexual
dc.subjectnon-Aboriginal
dc.subjectqualitative
dc.subjectsexual behaviour
dc.subjectsexually transmitted infections
dc.subjectyoung adults
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectGonorrhea
dc.subjectHeterosexuality
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectRisk Factors
dc.subjectSexual Behavior
dc.subjectSexual Health
dc.subjectSexual Partners
dc.subjectWestern Australia
dc.subjectYoung Adult
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectGonorrhea
dc.subjectRisk Factors
dc.subjectSexual Behavior
dc.subjectHeterosexuality
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectSexual Partners
dc.subjectWestern Australia
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectYoung Adult
dc.subjectSexual Health
dc.titleRisk perceptions, misperceptions and sexual behaviours among young heterosexual people with gonorrhoea in Perth, Western Australia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume44
dcterms.source.issn2209-6051
dcterms.source.titleCommunicable diseases intelligence (2018)
dc.date.updated2024-12-07T10:38:23Z
curtin.departmentCurtin School of Population Health
curtin.departmentCurtin School of Population Health
curtin.accessStatusIn process
curtin.facultyFaculty of Health Sciences
curtin.facultyFaculty of Health Sciences
curtin.contributor.orcidHallett, Jonathan [0000-0003-0136-5426]
curtin.contributor.orcidLobo, Roanna [0000-0002-8335-3017]
curtin.contributor.researcheridLobo, Roanna [E-4287-2013]
dcterms.source.eissn2209-6051
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridHallett, Jonathan [23492037000] [55399655600]
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridLobo, Roanna [18437479300]
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