Abstract :
Background: The World Health Organization defines adolescents as those belonging to the age group
of 10-19 years old. Nevertheless, adolescence should be considered a phase rather than a fixed age
group, with physical, social, psychological and cultural dimensions. This is indeed a transition period
between childhood and adulthood where special attention is required. Due to unawareness, peer
pressure and misinformation they become confuse and indulge in high risk behaviors. Theobjective of
this study isto determine the knowledge and perception of sexual behavior and sexuality education
among adolescents and also to determine the association between knowledge regarding HIV/ AIDS
and selected variables.
Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 420 students of class X-XII from fourschools
of Imphal and undergraduate 1st year MBBS, BDS and Nursing students of RIMS, Imphal, Manipur
during 3rd
- 24th April 2014. Data was collected through self administered questionnaire and analyzed
by SPSS version-16. Descriptive statistics like mean, percentages were used. Chi-square test was used
for analysis where P-value of
Keyword :
Cross sectional study, Adolescence, Sexual behavior, Sexuality education.