International Journal of Tropical Medicine

Year: 2011
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page No. 8 - 14

Condom Use among Risk Behaviour Group in Ekiti-State, Nigeria

Authors : Bimbola Kemi Odu and Grace Funmilayo Oluwasegun

Abstract: This study investigated the effective use of condom among risk behaviour group and the group considered for this study are the commercial sex workers at different levels in Ekiti State. The population consisted of all commercial sex workers in hotels/brothels in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The population consisted of all commercial sex workers in hotels/brothels in Ekiti-State, Nigeria. A volunteer sample consisted of 200 sex workers selected from five Local Governments through purposive and stratified random sampling techniques were used. .The strata recognized age, sex, family background, location of residence and socio-economic status. The instrument for collecting data was Condom Use Among Commercial Sex Workers (CUACSW). Reliability coefficient of the instrument was estimated at 0.75 using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Data collected were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, t-test and analysis of variance and tested at 0.05 level of significant. The result shows that there is a significant difference in the use of condom of sex workers in terms of their socio-economic status, place of residence in urban and rural areas and age. It was recommended that commercial sex workers’ economic situation should be enhanced by various levels of Government at their different locations and that the older sex workers should be settled into a good trade which will eventually lead into the eradication of sex work since research has shown that it is the older ones that induct the younger ones into the trade.

How to cite this article:

Bimbola Kemi Odu and Grace Funmilayo Oluwasegun, 2011. Condom Use among Risk Behaviour Group in Ekiti-State, Nigeria. International Journal of Tropical Medicine, 6: 8-14.

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