BEHAVIOR OF BADI COMMUNITY IN PREVENTING STIS

Author Name: Lalmani Acharya

Volume/Issue: 03/03

Country: Nepal

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/09.2022-25722727/UIJIR

Affiliation:

Associate Professor, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

ABSTRACT

This research was limited to the Badi community in Namuna Basti, in the Dailekh area. The study's main goals were to evaluate respondents' understanding of the Badi community's preventive health behaviors, identify the community's STI prevention practices, and identify various STI information sources. For the aim of the study, the Badi people of Namuna Basti had been chosen as the researcher's subject. There were 274 people living in the Namuna basti out of the total of 60 households in the study area. Male and female subjects aged 14 to 59 made up the study's target population. Only 120 men and women were chosen by the researcher from each household. Only a closed interview schedule and a descriptive design were employed by the researcher to obtain data for the study. The major findings of this study were that the majority (53%) of respondents said communication, while 2% of respondents said other (workshop, seminar, etc.) is the means of learning about health behavior, almost all of the respondents (82%) said they were aware that HIV/AIDS is one type of sexual disease, only 38% of respondents applied preventative health behavior, while 62% did not, and the majority of respondents, or 58 percent, did not.

Key words: Preventive health, STI, Badi, HIV, Sex Education