Table 1.
Awareness of individual items of syphilis knowledge
| Item | Total | Urban residents | Factory workers | College students | Pregnant women | FSWs | MSM | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | Frequency | % | |
| 1 | 2727 | 78.6 | 564 | 84.8 | 516 | 76.0 | 529 | 73.7 | 531 | 77.7 | 273 | 73.6 | 314 | 88.7 |
| 2 | 2263 | 65.2 | 477 | 71.7 | 431 | 63.5 | 400 | 55.7 | 425 | 62.2 | 219 | 59.0 | 311 | 87.9 |
| 3 | 2074 | 59.8 | 390 | 58.6 | 352 | 51.8 | 472 | 65.7 | 430 | 63.0 | 184 | 49.6 | 246 | 69.5 |
| 4 | 2636 | 76.0 | 544 | 81.8 | 471 | 69.4 | 509 | 70.9 | 559 | 81.8 | 251 | 67.7 | 302 | 85.3 |
| 5 | 1897 | 54.7 | 348 | 52.3 | 414 | 61.0 | 314 | 43.7 | 379 | 55.5 | 195 | 52.6 | 247 | 69.8 |
| 6 | 3157 | 91.0 | 609 | 91.6 | 624 | 91.9 | 618 | 86.1 | 644 | 94.3 | 326 | 87.9 | 336 | 94.9 |
| 7 | 2382 | 68.6 | 492 | 74.0 | 453 | 66.7 | 370 | 51.5 | 558 | 81.7 | 231 | 62.3 | 278 | 78.5 |
| 8 | 2464 | 71.0 | 498 | 74.9 | 417 | 61.4 | 519 | 72.3 | 520 | 76.1 | 244 | 65.8 | 266 | 75.1 |
Item 1: Syphilis is mainly transmitted through sexual contact (True)
Item 2: Syphilis is curable (True)
Item 3: A man looks healthy may have syphilis (True)
Item 4: Using condoms correctly in sexual contact can prevent syphilis transmission (True)
Item 5: Syphilis infection can increase the risk of HIV transmission or acquisition (True)
Item 6: Sex partners of syphilis patients need to attend a hospital for serological examination (True)
Item 7: Syphilis infected women can transmit the syphilis to their neonatal (True)
Item 8: Having dinner or shaking hands with syphilis patients can infect syphilis (False)