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Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Infect. 2015 Apr 1;91(7):473–478. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2014-051952

Table 3.

Knowledge, perceptions, and behaviours of girls regarding STIs.

Variable	N (%)

Factual knowledge
Ever heard of STI	348 (86.4%)
Knew at least gonorrhoea, HIV, syphilis are STIs	175 (43.4%)
Knew at least one sign of STI	149 (37.0%)
Knew at least one complication of STI	266 (66.0%)
Perceptions and behaviour
Perceived self as at risk of STIs	121 (30.0%)
Knew that condoms prevent STIs	168 (41.7%)
Currently do use condoms	25 (6.2%)
Believed that condoms are useless (do not help to prevent pregnancies and STIs)	106 (26.3%)