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MEASURING SEXUAL INTEGRITY AND AWARENESS LEVELS OF BOTH HIV INFECTED AND AFFECTED ADOLESCENTS

. A.THOMAS WILLIAM Associate Professor, Former Dean Academic and UGC Post Doctoral Awardee Arul Anandar College (Autonomous), Karumathur, MADURAI,India


Abstract

Sexual integrity becomes crucial and important and often less or never talked about - as the consequences of ignoring Sexual Integrity leads to serious repercussions. An empirical study among the adolescent children of HIV parents in Tamilnadu state, India was carried out with the objectives to measure the extent of sexual integrity and offer suggestions was carried out. This Descriptive study used interview schedule as the tool to cover High prevalence and Low prevalence districts in Tamil Nadu state, India. There was a significant mean difference between the domicile and age of the respondents and the extent of sexual integrity among them. It has been observed that persons from rural areas had moderate extent of sexual integrity and there was no mean difference between the gender and care taking of the respondents with the level of sexual integrity. In terms of sexual awareness there was (only) a moderate level found among the variables such as religion, community, type of family and parents educational status and however statistically there is no significant difference found among the social variables.

Key words Sexual Integrity, Sexual Awareness, Social variables, Personal variables, Infected and affected HIV Adolescents

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